The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.

Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves.

The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.