It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.