The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.