"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 too little."
"I have seen war...I hate war."
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."
"Peace, like charity, begins at home."
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
"Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us.... With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounded determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God. I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December seventh, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire."
"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach."
"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."
"This government must lose no time or effort to keep the nation from being drawn into the war. In my candid judgement, we shall succeed in these efforts."
"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him."
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."
"Governments never do anything by accident; if government does something you can bet it was carefully planned."
"No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living."
"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."
"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 too little."
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."
"It is fun to be in the same decade with you."
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
"We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
"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."
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad."