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Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms

Government is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people.

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.

An Administration would be unworthy of confidence at home or respect abroad should it cease to be influenced by the conviction that no apparent advantage can be purchased at a price so dear as that of national wrong or dishonor.

Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.

Preeminently, the power of our advocacy reposes in our example; but no example, be it remembered, can be powerful for lasting good, whatever apparent advantages may be gained, which is not based upon eternal principles of right and justice.

To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.

From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

It would be neither fitting nor efficacious for this Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet economically. This is the business of the Europeans.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls.

Great nations like great men must keep their word.

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.