America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures – character.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage — the more the minimum, the better.

Brave men don’t belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it’s citizens deserves the...

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth...

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all...

The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe...

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn’t need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

Once a decision was made, I didn’t worry about it afterward…

Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

Republicans don’t like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don’t talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

I doubt if there is any problem in the world today – social, political or economic – that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives – but in what we do for...

Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And...

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: “The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

I hope for some sort of peace—but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up there’ll be no reason for any of it.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a...

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man’s blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home–but not for housing. They are strong for labor–but they are stronger for restricting...

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.