It is the firm duty of each of our free citizens and of every free citizen everywhere to place the cause of his country before the comfort, the convenience of himself.

The brave and clear platform adopted by this convention... sets forth that government in a modern civilization has certain inescapable obligations to its citizens, among which are protection of the family and the home, the establishment of a democracy of opportunity, and aid to those overtaken by disaster.

Government cannot take a holiday of a year, a month, or even a day just because a few people are tired or frightened by the inescapable pace of this modern world in which we live.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.