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Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.
To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.
Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.
My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.
[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.
I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.
I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.