Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

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

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

Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.