Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.