“An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.”

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Calm seas never made a good sailor.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

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 goverment.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

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

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

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.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

Our country is being run by incompetent people.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

I am never tired of winning, and as your president I will win for you, the American people. I’m with you!

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Barcelona is my life, they have brought me to where I am today, I could not leave, I don’t want to leave. My heart stays with Barcelona.