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 I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

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

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.