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

The world must be made safe for democracy.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.