My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems seeing a painting listening to some music some opera which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
War is a contagion.
More than an end to war we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes...
Yesterday December seventh 1941 a date which will live in infamy the...
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the...
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of...
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a...
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all...
Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration unselfishness the only real...
In politics nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was...
If civilization is to survive we must cultivate the science of human...
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They...
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force...
But while they prate of economic laws men and women are starving. We must...
Men are not prisoners of fate but only prisoners of their own minds.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
We have always held to the hope the belief the conviction that there is a...
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The...
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those...
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a...
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than...
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting...
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic...
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over...
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough...
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who however has never...
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our...
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national...
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and...
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to...
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual...
