There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

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.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.