People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.

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