I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

I think this would be a good time for a beer.

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.