Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
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.
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.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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.
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
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...
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.