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

We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

I love it--I just love it.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

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

I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

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