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

Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have no right under any implied power or any court-approved power to enter into a solution of a national economic problem, but that that national economic problem must be decided only by the States?... We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce.

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.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.