Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.