No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.