I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

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.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.