The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.