Thomas E Dewey

Thomas E Dewey (1902-1971), full name Thomas Edmund Dewey, was a US lawyer, prosecutor, and politician who served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. He was the Republican candidate for president in 1944 and 1948.

Wisdom & Quotes

• You can't shoot an idea.

- debate with Harold Stassen on whether to outlaw the Communist Party, 1948

• The law is bigger than money — but only if the law works hard enough..

- quoted in Richard Norton Smith, Thomas E. Dewey

• No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

- maxims cited in Richard Norton Smith, Thomas E. Dewey

• When you're leading, don't talk.

- remark during presidential campaign, 1948, quoted in Richard Norton Smith, Thomas E. Dewey

Nathaniel West