I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

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 whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.

Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Last month Mitt Romney raised $76 million. He found it in an old sport-coat pocket.

I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006.

Politics is a continuation of economics by other means

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.