"We have always held to the hope,..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“What I seek is the highest possible batting average.”

“Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.”

“Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.”

“If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.”

“I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp down expectations. If you listen to my stump speeches, if you listen to what I said at Grant Park, I kept on saying, "Look, this is not just about me, this is not going to happen in one year, or one term, or even one presidency." And we tried to layer into everything we were saying a sense of hope, but also realism.”

“When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!”

“The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.”

“No matter how difficult the situation is, it won't last forever. What follows the night is the day. What follows the winter is the spring.”