It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

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 are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

The fact that God is infinite makes the study of His Word a lifetime occupation.

Be real. Be you and don't you dare apologize for who you are ever again.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes

If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.