Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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

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

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and example, must be inculcated in the hearts and minds of all Americans if the institutions of our democracy are to be maintained and perpetuated. We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.