The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

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

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.

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

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