No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

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

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.