A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

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.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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.

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.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.

People know the value of money so they chase it. I wonder if they know the worth of love.

Destroying the planet is like stepping from a moving train and thinking it will all work out.

I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche.

Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.