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 know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.