If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
War is a contagion.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
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.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.