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

The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.

I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

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.

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

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.