...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

We need our radicals.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.