The brave and clear platform adopted by this convention, to which I heartily subscribe, 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.

These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power.…

We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civiliz…

For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own han…

Our job as entertainers is to ease some pain. So to begin with, you have to know what and where the pain is. I've never campaigned before and I wanted to be da…

All communities are apt to look to government for too much. Even in our own country, where its powers and duties are so strictly limited, we are prone to do so…

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.