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You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.