I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.