To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.