If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

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

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

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.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

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.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

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. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.