Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.