First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

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