Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.
But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
I have a terrific headache.
It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature’s wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia...
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.
We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom reality.
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.