"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

"The tools of government are not designed to protect the strong, but to protect the weak."

"The one great principle of the New Deal is that the resources of the nation should be used for the benefit of all the people."

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—owne…"

"I am not a magician. I am a human being. I have my weaknesses, I have my faults. But I am trying to do the best I can for the American people."