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

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

I think this would be a good time for a beer.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.