Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

N.B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Be sincere be brief be seated.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.