Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)
The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.
We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.
The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief. State of the Union address (1935)