Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt