The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.