"Fellow citizens: On this Labor Day, 1954, we Americans pause to take special note of the dignity and the worth--and the tremendous accomplishment--of the individual worker in our land."
"My friends, through such measures as these, and through knowledge we are sure to gain from this new plant we begin today, I am confident that the atom will not be devoted exclusively to the destructio..."
"What is good for the agriculture and the agricultural interests of the United States, for the natural resources of the United States, is good for all of us, not only now but extending on into the futu..."
"Washington is there to help coordinate, to help in every kind of thing that, as Lincoln put it: to help in those things which people cannot do for themselves, or cannot so well do for themselves."
"I know of nothing--particularly for one who has to spend a great deal of his time in Washington in an official position--that can take the place of going out and trying again to meet Americans that ar..."
"It is Americans--it is the American spirit, American faith, American courage, and American stamina that have been the greatest resource of this Nation since the first landing in Virginia."
"I was going to do my best to pick a Cabinet that would do its best, to pick administrators that would do their best, to look at the United States as a whole."
"It is merely that the Federal Government is doing its part in trying to be your good partner."
"I soon found that for my part I seemed to be different."
"Indeed, I think I might remark in passing that those people who believe that a group of men can be gathered together in Washington-and remember, that's all Government is, just a group of men that you ..."
"I spent a long time in the Army, and we had textbooks that told why a commander should go around and visit the people who were doing the actual fighting--this was to inspire the troops."