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

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

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

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today 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.