Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.

...We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.