"The one great principle of the New Deal is that the resources of the nation should be used for the benefit of all the people."

"We have new problems, new conditions, new methods. The old formula, 'let nature take its course,' is not good enough. We must be prepared to use the instruments of government to meet the new condition…"

"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."

"The world cannot long remain half-slave and half-free."

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."