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

All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.