I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.

The real safeguard of democracy is education.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.