We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.