We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership, because in order to be secure in their human rights, people need access to property rights.

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met that moment with courage and vision. His farsighted leadership in the postwar era has helped ever since to preserve peace and freedom in the world.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them.