“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

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

What America needs now is a drink.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

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

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

I believe that every interaction is an act of fate in some way, that we’re meant to interact with them, and it’s our job to flesh that out and experience it to the fullest and learn the lessons we’re meant to.

You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.

You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.

I’ve noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.