Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

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

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering