The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written
I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.