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

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

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

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.