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

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt