All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.