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

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

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.

There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.