We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

Books cannot be killed by fire.

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.