Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.