To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

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

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.