Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."

"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."

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

"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."

"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."

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."

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

"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned."

"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."

"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country."

"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."

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

"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out."

"We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

"Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion."