Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”

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

“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”

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

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

“We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”

“War is a contagion.”

“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.”

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

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

“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

“It is fun to be in the same decade with you.”

“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”

“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

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

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”