Calm seas never made a good sailor

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

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.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

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

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.