"Even Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who enacted the National Labor Relations Act, opposed public-sector monopoly bargaining."
"Our nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our working men and women a fair day's pay ..."
"In the construction of this dam we have had our eyes on the future of the Nation. Its cost will be returned to the people of the United States many times over..."
"I want you to put the Nazi saboteurs in the electric chair."
"the sugar lobby was 'the most powerful pressure group that had descended on the national capitol' during his lifetime."
"The future and safety of our country and our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders."
"Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers."
"Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity . ...."
"In the cold light of day, to analyze it, to ask questions, to call for answers, to use every knowledge, every science we possess, to apply common sense."
"I am not willing that the vitality of our people be further sapped by the giving of cash or of market baskets."
"We put those payroll contributions there so as to give contributors a legal, moral and political right to collect their pensions and their employment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn polit..."
"[T]he principles of harmony and of necessity require that the building of a new structure shall blend with the essential lines of the old."