The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

The first twelve years are the hardest.

This nation asks for action, and action now.

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.