Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson - and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States - only on a far bigger and broader basis.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.

I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

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

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.