Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.