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.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

Great power involves great responsibility

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.