We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson - and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States - only on a far bigger and broader basis.

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation