But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
