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.

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.

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

Necessitous men are not free men.

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.

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.