“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”

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.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

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

I don’t know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable… what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.

I sort of knew I was a bit of a drama queen. I always threw tantrums, so I knew I wasn’t a normal child.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.