Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.