To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.