It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

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.

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

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

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.