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

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.

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 speed is something dangerous but very exciting.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

I tell the truth. And I know what I’m talking about. That’s why I’m a threat.

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

He was all dangerous eyes and beautiful lies, but I ached. for him to lie to me some more.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.

Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.