If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments and their very foundations are set. The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fight. To save one, we must now make up our minds to save all.

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.

A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world

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