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 carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.