There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

People can only make you inferior with your consent.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.