“War is a contagion.”
“There is no indispensable man.”
“Be sincere, be brief; be seated.”
“Peace, like charity, begins at home.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”
“Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.”
“The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.”
“The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”
“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
“A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.”
“No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.”
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.”
“never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.”
“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.”
“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.”
“Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.”
“Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.”
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
“If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
“We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.”
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.”
“Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.”
“It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.”
“Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”