A long record has been written. In that record, both in this State and in the national capital, you will find a simple, clear and consistent adherence not only to the letter, but to the spirit of the American form of government.

This [New York] is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.

It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known.

This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history. It's our declaration of economic independence.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.

Prophets of the downfall of American democracy have seen their dire predictions come to naught.