"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."

"There are as many opinions as there are experts."

"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight."

"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time."

"The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."

"If you treat people right they will treat you right -- ninety percent of the time."

"I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going."

"Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business … has been a menace to … American society."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction."

"The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability."

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."

"Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women"

"If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free"

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something."

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt"

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough."

"Be sincere, be brief; be seated."

"The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred..."

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics."

"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."

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"

"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."

"An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod."

"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."

"A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."

"Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them."

"To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift."

"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment."

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."

"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."

"If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."

"We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base upon which each one of our citizens may build his individual security through his own individual efforts."

"Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little."

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth"

"Don't Risk It, Fix It."

"Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society."

"There is no indispensable man."

"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression gainst any neighbor--anywhere in the world."

"I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant"

"People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that."