31st to 25th Presidents of the United States

• About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

• Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

• I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
• Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
• It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

• Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

• Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

• Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

• There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

• I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

• I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

• Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.

• Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

• Our differences are politics. Our agreements are principles.

• That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

• Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.