Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.