A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.