A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

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.