But The Basic Difficulty Still Remains: It

I Am A Man Of Principle, And One Of My Basic Principles Is Flexibility.

We Have Been Through This Biennial Convulsion Four Or Five Different Times Over The Past 10 Or 12 Years, And Now It Appears That We Are Going Through This Quiet Agony All Over Again.

I Am A Man Of Fixed And Unbending Principles, The First Of Which Is To Be Flexible At All Times.

I Have Said, With Respect To Authorization Bills, That I Do Not Want The Congress Or The Country To Commit Fiscal Suicide On The Installment Plan.

We Are Becoming So Accustomed To Millions And Billions Of Dollars That 'thousands' Has Almost Passed Out Of The Dictionary.