If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
War is a contagion.
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
