Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.