“Peace, like charity, begins at home.”

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.

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

Calm seas never made a good sailor.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.

Every ending is a beginning, and thus beginning shall bring hope.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.