“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.”
“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.”
“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.”
“It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.”
“Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.”
“We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”
“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
“The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.”
“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.”
“The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...”
“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.”
“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”
“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
“These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”
“Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, 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.”
“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want,. The fourth is freedom from fear.”
“The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.”