Failure is not an American habit.
Necessitous men are not free men.
Okay, you’ve convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.
I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940.
We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people’s money, other people’s business, other people’s labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Books cannot be killed by fire.
To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .
All work undertaken should be useful – not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.
The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble.
You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.