Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."