We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

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.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.