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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.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

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

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

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

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.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

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.

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.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

War is a contagion.

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.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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.