Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

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.

If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

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.