Quotes from Al 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.

Be sincere. 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.

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.

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

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.