No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.