When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.