“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”

“experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.”

“The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.”

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

“Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,To signify thou camest to bite the world.”

“I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.”

“Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.”