Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”

“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities: a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”

“I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.”

“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

“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.”

“Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”

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

“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 you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”

“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”

“War is a contagion.”