A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

I have seen war ... I hate war.

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.