Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

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.

Faith determines your destiny, not your reality.

The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.

True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

I assume that people get in trouble when they do a bait and switch, when they say something to get the job and then they just don't do that thing.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.