This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

Everything changes but change itself.

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.