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

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved.