I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.

I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the tradi…

In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more wor…

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as g…

I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its bes…

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.