Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

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 most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

There is no such thing as perfection and it is okay for you to have negative thoughts.

Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime?

Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

It's up to history to judge.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.