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

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

Choose a challenge instead of competence

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.