This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.