No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.