Al Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.
-- Al Smith

#Believe #Exercise #Men
I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.
-- Al Smith

#Country #Religious #Thinking
I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.
-- Al Smith

#Religious #Children #Believe
I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
-- Al Smith

#Believe #Exercise #Law
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.
-- Al Smith

#Believe #Simple #Men
Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.
-- Al Smith

#Data #America #Office
The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together,
-- Al Smith

#Bridges #Together #Brooklyn
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
-- Al Smith

#Sunshine #People #Umbrella
If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.
-- Al Smith

#Men #Hypocrisy #Cheerful
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.
-- Al Smith

#Santa #Empty #Fireplaces
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
-- Al Smith

#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.
-- Al Smith

#Sympathy #Law #People

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