Quotes On Leadership

Presidents are selected, not elected.

We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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

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

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.