A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

These unhappy times call for the building of plans that … build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.