We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

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.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

To reach a port we must set sail

In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.