Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Social gains are never permanently obtained."

"There are as many opinions as there are experts."

"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

"A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor."

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

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice."

"Great power involves great responsibility."

"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free, but not to be famous."

"There are as many opinions as there are experts."

"More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather an assessment that something else is more important."

"Time and time again, citizens ask me if I believe in the supernatural. I answer them with a story."

"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take."

"We cannot ask a man to go out and die for democracy unless we are willing to let him work for it at home."

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people."

"The art of leadership is saying no."

"I sometimes think that the saving of the Union depends upon the charity of the people toward one another."

"We are always ready to make the kind of sacrifice that is not too difficult."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people."

"Our greatest primary task is to put people to work."

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face."