Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.