This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River