There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.

Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.

The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

Children add to the wonder of being alive.