Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.
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.
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 held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
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...
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.