It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.