It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

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

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.

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