Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.