We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.