True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.