Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.