“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”

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.

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.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

I’ve been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn’t nervous and there’s no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.