We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.