Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.