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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.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

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

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

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

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

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.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Evil is whatever distracts.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.