While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

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.

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.

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.