Franklin D. Roosevelt

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

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.

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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

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.

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.