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.

If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

We can never tell what is in store for us.

We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.