If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities—a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism: ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or any other controlling private power.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.