December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

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

They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.