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.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.