Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

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.

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

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.