HAROLD L. ICKES

The name of your organization must mean that you are committed to a policy of peace and the policy of democracy.

[Characterizing Harry S Truman:] Stupid!

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

Businessmen are barbarians in suits.

Civilization as we know it could not continue to exist without oil.

... he [Thomas E. Dewey] is a political streetwalker accosting men with "come home with me dear.

Dewey has thrown his diaper into the ring.

I am against government by crony.

[Huey Long is] suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Emperor Long has an intellect.

I am thoroughly convinced that he is a lawless individual bent on building up a reputation for himself as a great builder, even at the expense of the President and the country. I think he is the greatest threat today to the president's reelection.

I can't speak for the OPC. I'm all balled up on all these initials.

As a matter of fact, it is the fascist minded men of America who are the real enemies of our institutions.... It is these men who, pretending that they would save us from communism, would superimpose upon America an equally dreaded fascism.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

I would dare to dispute the integrity of the President on any occasion my country's welfare demanded it.... The President is neither an absolute monarch nor a descendant of a sun goddess.

[Douglas] MacArthur is the type of man who thinks that when he gets to heaven, God will step down from the great white throne and bow him into His vacated seat.

It seems to me intolerable to allow private people to use public capital in order to make a guaranteed profit for themselves .... If private citizens won’t supply munitions of war at a reasonable profit and take pot luck with the rest of the citizens in the matter of taxation, then the government ought to build its own plants and conscript the necessary managers to run them.

It would be just like him to wait for some expression of public opinion instead of giving direction to that public opinion.

The continued retention of these innocent people would he a blot upon the history of this country.

The President [FDR] is willing to take what Congress will give him and Congress will give him only what big business is willing that he should have.

While they shriek for "freedom of the press" when there is no slightest threat to that freedom, they deny to citizens that freedom from the press to which the decencies of life entitle them. They misrepresent, they distort, they color, they blackguard, they lie.

I have your reference to the text for the pamphlet descriptive of the Boulder Canyon Project for use at the Century of Progress Exposition. I would be glad if you will refer to the dam as 'Boulder Dam' in this pamphlet as well as in correspondence and other references to the dam as you may have occasion to make in the future.

In this great auditorium under the sky all of us are free. When God gave us this wonderful outdoors …, He made no distinction of race, or creed, or color.

The Wendell Willkie campaign sprang from the grassroots of the country clubs of America

An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease and security in order that he and his children may retain the right of free men.

An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor.