Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

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.