I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.

Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

incurable lover of the grotesque

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.

If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear!

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.