 The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. |
| The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. |
| We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. |
| More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. |
| I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. |
| Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. |
| Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. |
| A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. |
| If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. |
| Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. |
| To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. |
| In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. |
| If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come. |
| Be sincere; be brief; be seated. |
| Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. |
| If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. |
| Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. |
| 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. |
| It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. |
| Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else. |
