One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

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.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.