Failure is not an American habit.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.