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.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

The real safeguard of democracy is education.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

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.