The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights-that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

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

Necessitous men are not free men.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.