Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

Men make history, not the other way around.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness.

The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history has there been a more important Conference, or a more necessary meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are opening today.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.