Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no…

During this Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby, and forget his troubles.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

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

Dear Sallie: I am very sorry you have a cold and you are in bed. I played with Mary today for a little while. I hope by tomorrow you will be able to be up. I am glad today [sic] that my cold is better. Your loving, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.