Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle."

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

"We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair."

"The American form of government is attractive in the sense that it gives each and every one of us a chance."

"There is a duty we owe not only to our generation but to the generation which will come after us."

"An old-fashioned banker would say that the capital comes naturally out of the sale of the surplus production created by the activity."

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

"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger."

"More than anything else, I want the law specifically to state who built the levee."

"It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of Congress to dispose."

"In the words of the old spiritual, God's going to trouble the water."

"Liberty requires opportunity to make a living."

"I am neither bitter nor cynical, but I look on the world as it is."

"The true patriot is the man who gives his life to his country in its darkest hour."

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life."

"Never allow a Fool to kiss you or a Kiss to fool you."

"We cannot live only for ourselves."

"The only thing that counts is the will to win."

"A drinker was in front of me and he was in quite a state and I was in quite a state."

"Democracy is not a static thing."

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

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

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

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"Remember, you must not lose faith in humanity."

"Prosperous farmers mean more prosperous business in every town in the nation."

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."

"Put it this way; no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages has any right to continue."

"Self-interest is a primary motivator for all human action."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."