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.

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

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.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.