I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of...
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take it for granted that you wan...
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his...
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the cando...
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or...
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves libert...
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
