No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing. For, though in every age there are some who, by bold adventures, or by favorable accidents, rise suddenly to riches, yet it is dangerous to indulge hopes of such rare events; and the bulk of mankind must owe their affluence to small and gradual profits, below which their expense must be resolutely reduced.