It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

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

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.