We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

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

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world