War is young men dying and old men talking

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

I love it–I just love it.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism:...

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion–some alluring, attractive, even speciously inspiring,...

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies...

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests,...

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of...

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Competition has been shown to be usefulup to a certain point and no further,but cooperation, which is the thingwe must strive for today,begins where competition leaves off.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.Freedom

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can...

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the...

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in...

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of...

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

If you treat people right they will treat you right … ninety percent of the time.

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.”[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the...

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted–in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist...

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most...

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.