Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

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.

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.