"Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples"
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments"
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written"
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it"
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little"
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are"
"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play"
"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"
"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country"
"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force"
"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"
"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along"
"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"
"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting"
"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned"
"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down"
"In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people"
"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time"
"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"
"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union"
