We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

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

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

Great power involves great responsibility

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.