The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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 too little.
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Great power involves great responsibility.
The essence of our struggle is that men shall be free.
The history of the last half century is accordingly in large measure a history of financial titans, whose methods were not scrutinized with too much care and who were honored in proportion as they produced the results, irrespective of the means they used.
We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.