Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.