It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

This nation under God

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.