"Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain […"

"The trouble is, Roosevelt hasn't taken all of my ideas; just part of them. I'm about one hundred yards ahead of him. …"

"Mr. President, I am not undertaking to answer the charge that I am ignorant. It is true. I am an ignorant man. I have…"

"I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, an…"

"I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its h…"

"Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education."

"Now, just a word about the poor Negroes … They're here. They've got to be cared for … The poor Negroes have got to li…"

"They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in thi…"

"We started them to school. They learned to read. They learned to work simple arithmetic problems. Now some of our pla…"

"Every man a king, but no one wears a crown."