To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

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

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.