Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.
December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children.
We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
I was never nervous. That's not me,. . . Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.
The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.
Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.