A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.
One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
