I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe 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.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
Franklin D. RooseveltThis law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.
Franklin D. Roosevelt