Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do not overlook the fact that perfect faithfulness may be looked upon as a form of dishonesty."

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

"War is a contagion, whether declared or undeclared."

"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."

"We must be willing to adjust our standards and bring them down or adjust ourselves and bring them up."

"Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in the spirit of caring for its people than the constant omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."

"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue."

"The true courage of civil rights may be slowly growing, but it is growing."

"Remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."

"We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity shall be as nearly complete as possible."

"The only thing that matters in public life is what you achieve."

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."

"We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."

"Those who would sacrifice essential freedom for temporary security deserve neither."

"For it is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and bodies to the task."

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

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."

"The only thing I am afraid of is fear."

"More than ever before, Americans' future is linked to developments on the far side of the globe."

"In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor."

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941, will live in infamy."

"The only sure thing about politics is that things change."

"We have always believed that writing was good, that reading was good."

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself."

"Men are not going to accept indefinitely the present condition that the fruits of their labor shall accrue to the benefit of a comparatively few industrialists."

"I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to encourage the growth of individuality."

"Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip service to free enterprise while working to destroy it."

"The only limit is the limit you accept in your mind."

"We have learned that we cannot live alone at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations."

"Freedom to worship is not freedom to do anything you please."