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.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.

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

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

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, 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.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

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.