True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...