...We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to almost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.