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

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

People die, but books never die.