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What I seek is the highest possible batting average.
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.
Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.
Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.
It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity
Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.
Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.
I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.
Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.
All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River
We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.
To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.