We call those laws the New Deal.

I certainly appreciate the cordial introduction and support of Miss Bankhead.

For myself, and for the Democratic Party, I completely reject the idea that we should 'eliminate' the New Deal.

The strength of this Republic lies in the fact that so many millions of men and women, who held no office and aspire to none, recognize as clearly as Jackson, Polk, and Johnson did that they must serve their country before they serve…

It is not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It is the hand that casts the ballot.

Each of the three men whose fame this monument celebrates held the office of President in time of trouble.

We know now what they could not know then.

It is good at such a time to pause to take strength and guidance from our country's past.

What each of them meant to his time, you have been told by many learned men.

In their madness they were determined that the blood-letting should not stop.

It takes courage to face a duelist with a pistol and it takes courage to face a British general with an army.

We dedicate here today not merely a monument to great men of the past, but also to the greatness of free men now and forever.

They deserve not only an enduring monument, but they deserve understanding and remembrance.

And this is the thing that these three men, different as they were in origin and in temperament, held in common.

In 1865 no man alive could have succeeded Abraham Lincoln without being subject to unfavorable comparisons.

Thomas Jefferson has been endlessly praised for adding 827,000 square miles to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase.

A man more careful to preserve his own peace than to 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States' might have drifted into ways that would have ended in the destruction of the Union.

This is an occasion to which I have looked forward for a long time.