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

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

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.

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