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.

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.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.