I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.

Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have no right under any implied power or any court-approved power to enter into a solution of a national economic problem, but that that national economic problem must be decided only by the States?... We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

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.