Before We Can Make Friends With Anyone

You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Every Experience In Which You Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face.... The Danger Lies In Refusing To Face The Fear, In Not Daring To Come To Grips With It. If You Fail Anywhere Along The Line It Will Take Away Your Confidence. You Must Make Yourself Succeed Every Time. You Must Do The Thing You Think You Cannot Do.

In Our Country We Must Trust The People To Hear And See Both The Good And The Bad And To Choose The Good.

If Everything Was In Your Favor, If You Did Not Have To Surmount Any Great Mountains, Then You Have Nothing To Be Proud Of. But If You Feel That You Have Special Difficulties, Then You Must Indeed Be Proud Of Your Achievement.

After The Discovery In 1918 Of Love Letters Revealing That Franklin Was Involved With Lucy Mercer: The Bottom Dropped Out Of My Own Particular World, I Faced Myself, My Surroundings, My World, Honestly For The First Time.

When Will Our Consciences Grow So Tender That We Will Act To Prevent Human Misery Rather Than Avenge It?