The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.