A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.

More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

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.