Henry F. Ashurst

“I am the senior Senator from the baby state.”

“My dear friend, I am not consistent. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.' I am not a small mind.”

“The United States Senate is the last of the world's deliberative bodies.”

“The passions of the mob are mutable, and tomorrow they will be as passionately for you as they are passionately against you today.”

“I suffer from a constitutional objection to work.”

“When I have to choose between saving the country and saving my soul, I will always vote to save my soul.”