There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.

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