Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.