Fiorello H. La Guardia Quotes

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.

• Fiorello H. La Guardia / Former Mayor Of New York City

I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States.