Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
War is a contagion.
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
