Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.