Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

Failure is not an American habit.

Books cannot be killed by fire.

If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.