I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.