Franklin D. Roosevelt

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage in a mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the uncontrolled activities of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction, and it it must be met by the concerted actions of the peoples of all Nations.

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

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.