Alfred E. Smith Quotes

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by 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

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.