We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.