I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

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

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.