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.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.