“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.”

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.

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

When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator

When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

You know how much you love it when you get it in abundance.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.