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.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.