Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

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

You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty.

I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

Unless the U.N. is completely reorganized without the Communist nations in it, we should get out of it.

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.