Al Smith quotes

Al Smith was an American politician and four-time governor of New York. A leading progressive reformer, he became the first Catholic major party nominee for President of the United States in 1928. He championed social welfare programs and remains a symbol of urban, working-class America. Here are 7 of his quotes:

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. (Al Smith)

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Variant: The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

Al Smith

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Al Smith

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

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Occupation: American Statesman
Born: December 30, 1873
Died: October 4, 1944
Quotes count: 7
Wikipedia: Al Smith

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