Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.

Great power involves great responsibility

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.