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

"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."

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

"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."

"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world."

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

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

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

"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 walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head."

"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."

"The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."

"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."

"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."

"Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples."

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment."

"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."

"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."

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

"If I were starting life over again I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising."

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

"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing."

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

"So 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."

"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

"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 the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line-the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war."

"Freedom of conscience of education of speech of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged."

"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."

"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."

"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"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."

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"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."

"I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all."

"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."

"Peace like charity begins at home."

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