A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.

Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.