If you're not listening, you're not learning.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

He that in the latter part of his life too strictly inquires what he has done, can very seldom receive from his own heart such an account as will give him satisfaction.