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.

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.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

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

Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.