Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution – not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.
My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.
We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people’s freedom.
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.