“ 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. Alfred E. Smith
“ 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. Alfred E. Smith
“ 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… Alfred E. Smith
“ 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 Alfred E. Smith
