"I hope to come back here very often either as a private citizen, or as President of the United States."
"I am glad to be back here in Springfield now, and I am coming back again."
"Religious intolerance, social intolerance, and political intolerance have no place in our American life."
"Your Government is now engaged in some deep-dyed plot to take over the insurance business."
"We shall have saved the lives of some of our young men and women."
"Under the last Republican administration the insurance companies were 'bust.'"
"This time we are not going to scuttle our strength."
"I hope that, while we are alive, Bridgeport will never be called On again to make munitions in a world war."
"I assure you that I shall be the same man you have known all these years."
"Our fine boys are fighting magnificently all over the world and among those boys are the Murphys and the Kellys, the Smiths and the Joneses."
"After next Tuesday there are going to be a lot of sorry people in the United States."
"I believe that history will say that we were better prepared for this war than for any previous war in all our history."