When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.

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

I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.