The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

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!