Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

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. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

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

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Common Core is a big win for education.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.