"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."

"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."

"It is fun to be in the same decade with you."

"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 of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."

"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."

"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 be no end save victory."

"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country."

"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."

"In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor."

"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned."

"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight."

"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 little."

"Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion."

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

"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."

"Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them."

"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."

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

"The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."

"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."

"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 goverment."

"Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch."

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

"War is young men dying and old men talking."

"Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged."

"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 all the people."

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

"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize."

"We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power."

"I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land."

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

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out."

"I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms."

"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."

"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: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."

"Presidents are selected, not elected."

"Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter."

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."

"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion."

"We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind."

"In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people."

"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."

"We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men."

"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."

"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments."