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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart."

"Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars."

"It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."

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

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

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

"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting."

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

"It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present."

"War is a contagion."

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."

"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."

"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."

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

"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people."