Quotes from Alfred E. Smith

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

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.

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.

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.