“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

“No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.”

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”

“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”

“He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag”

“On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy.That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.”

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”