Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society

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.

There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.