Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

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.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

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.

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.