Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.