Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely."

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

"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical."

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."

"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."

"Great power involves great responsibility."

"Every political system has its day, and is supplanted by another."

"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence."

"Nobody will ever deprive you of your free will; your very existence presupposes that you are free."

"There are many ways to be strong, and strength comes in many forms."

"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."

"The conservative mind is the one most open to new ideas."

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

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

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that others have fought and died to win them."

"Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated, becomes an automatic reflex."

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

"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often grooves the ear more than any eloquence of tongue."

"The truth is the glue that holds government together."

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

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free."

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

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

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a little evil."

"A perfect technocrat is the perfect fool."

"The only thing that matters is that we move forward together."

"History as much as biology is in our favor."

"There must be provision for the right to work and the right to fair wages."

"Initiative and referendum and recall—all three of these are safe."