I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

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.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist; he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.