The surest way to be happy,” Eleanor wrote in an essay at school, “is to seek happiness for others. - Doris Kearns Goodwin

grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

"It is not until one visits old, oppressed, suffering Europe, that he can appreciate his own government, "he observed, "that he realizes the fearful responsibility of the American people to the nations of the whole earth, to carry successfully through the experiment... That men are capable of self-government."

Roosevelt declared, arguing that “the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.