To reach a port we must set sail.
General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.
Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: “There is no indispensable man”
Calm seas never made a good sailor.
This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.
We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time.
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.
If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.
The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.
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.
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.
It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.