No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful he must know why he is miserable.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.

I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.