You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

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.