I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.
There’s nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.
We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.
Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement.
Research is one of the Nation’s very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.
If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.
These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.
Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.
The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now – not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.
New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.
The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public – on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.
Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on.
The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.