When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.