For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

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