All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to...

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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 only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.