Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

... fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.