I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.