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.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

...We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.