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.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

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

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.