Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Be faithful in small things because it is by them that your soul is nourished."

"Nobody will ever deprive you of your right to work hard."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"Remember always that the composer, the poet, the scientist, only works out in the mind what others have already decided is best."

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."

"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the ocean."

"A true patriot doesn't make his country better by praising it without limit."

"Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much."

"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us."

"In our nature are we lovers of the beautiful, and that love should make us work hard to make our country beautiful."

"The political genius of the American people seems to ebb and flow."

"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it."

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."

"Difficult times call for difficult measures, but we must never abandon our principles."

"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight."

"In modern times no nation can claim absolute independence."

"The abundant life we seek to build must rest on the bedrock of individual character."

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, that there is a better life, a better world."

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. But today is a gift."

"Prosperity can only be created and spread by those who take risks."

"The great countries of the world have always acted in their enlightened self-interest."

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

"We have learned that we cannot live only for ourselves."

"Silent anguish of the human heart is the saddest of all tragedies."

"The test of our social machinery is whether it distributes opportunity or whether it concentrates it."

"We must make our choice between the quick profits of special interests and the slow steady gains of the common good."

"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."