Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

It must be a peace without victory

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.