We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.