The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.