The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

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