Quotes by Alfred E. Smith

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.”

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

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.Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York after WWI

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

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.