Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!

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

Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.