The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

That is why the Aethenian law makers so decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.