The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
War is a contagion.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
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.
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.