History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children.

Necessitous men are not free men.

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

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

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.