We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.