Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.