People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

He was a great president in his first term; in his second term, he wasn't the same Grover Cleveland he was to begin with. ...Cleveland reestablished the presidency by being not only a chief executive but a leader.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, not merely the brotherhood of white men but the brotherhood of all men before law.

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.