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.

Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.