I have seen war ... I hate war.

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.

You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

I feel like an hors deurve waiting to happen.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.