That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also . . .

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

I am for America because America is for the common people.

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.