We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
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.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
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.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
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.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
