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

Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

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

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.