I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

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

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River