War is a contagion.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.