What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.