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.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.