The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings...Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.