talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?