I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
The Truth is found when men (and Women) 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.
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing
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 your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.
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 powerful guns.
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
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 government.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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.
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.
If you treat people right they will treat you right … ninety percent of the time.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.
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.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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.
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 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.
Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.
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 have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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.
One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
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.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
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.
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.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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.
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. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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.
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.
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.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
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.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.