I regard the State of Connecticut as a very integral part of the Nation.
There would have been no second chance if we had failed once.
The seeds of fear cannot bear fruit in the polling booth.
Three and a half years ago we declared war on the depression.
The average American as I have met him on these voyages is no longer indifferent to the problems of Government.
New England has traditionally been a land of moderate-sized independent business, a land of economic democracy.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay.
It was the biggest peacetime job ever attempted.
New England is heir to the lasting fruits of another great New England tradition—the tradition of being a part in the economic development o...
We tried to rebuild that machine, to modernize it and to turn on the purchasing power.
Does that look to you like the end of private enterprise?
The freest Government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of p...
I have said that what the present national Administration has tried to do was to adjust statecraft to reality.
Our war, too—this war we are now finishing- had to be won.
I carry to you the same message I have given in the West and in the South: you are a vital and necessary part of a united whole.
We believe that people are even more important than machines.
It is a bad sign for those who believe that the American people can be swept off their feet by rabble-rousers this year.
I have found a Nation more greatly prosperous, more definitely on the highway to complete recovery than at any time in the past seven years.