“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

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

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.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.

The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.

In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.

Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.

While we’re members of the European Union, we don’t have an immigration policy. We can’t have an immigration policy. It’s a charade for people to pretend we do.