Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.