You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.