Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.