“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”

“I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940”

“You are only an extra in everyone else's play.”

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”