Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.