I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

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.