The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.