I’ve never been unemployed. I’ve never been very fully employed either.
All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River.
Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.
It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace – business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.
Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.
The whole world is one neighborhood.
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.
The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.
No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.
In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved.
Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.
In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident...