There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

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

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

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.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

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