The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.