Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. RooseveltI sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
Franklin D. RooseveltOnce you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.
Franklin D. Roosevelt