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.

This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.