"The country needs and, unless I mistake..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.”

“The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.”

“A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world”

“Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.”

“I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”

“The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and government by whom it has been recommended, and whose purposes it would answer. But it is not an idea which this country will endure.”

“You don't have to go where you don't want to be to get where you want to be. You can go from where you are to where you want to be.”

“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”

“Revolution is the larva of civilization.”