- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [on first arriving at Warm Springs] This place should be condemned!
- Tom Loyless: We have seen better times. But then, I imagine, so have you.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: You never pitied me, Tom. Thank you for that.
- Tom Loyless: On the contrary; I envy you.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [FDR is in the swimming pool] But I don't know how to stand.
- Aunt Sally: Not yet, you don't.
- Tom Loyless: But you will.
- Eleanor Roosevelt: [beginning to cry] I think we've lost him, Louis!
- Louis Howe: He's down there to be alone. Let's give him what he wants. Meantime we'll change our focus.
- Eleanor Roosevelt: To what?
- Louis Howe: To you.
- Eleanor Roosevelt: [Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor are headed toward the pool in Warm Springs] Tell me again why we came here?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [somewhat impatiently] For the waters. Are you coming?
- Louis Howe: [FDR is supposed to make a speech] What's the matter?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: What if I fall?
- Louis Howe: If you fall, you just get up again.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: If I fall in front of thousands of people, I'll lose everything - except their pity. They'll never see past my legs.
- Eleanor Roosevelt: My darling, they'll never see past your legs - until you do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt: [a medical convention is to be held in Atlanta] I'm suggesting we crash the party.
- Helena Mahoney: Why should this place cater to a few able-bodied folk, when it could be open the year round for polios?
- Helena Mahoney: I feel like I've been brought here under false pretenses.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Join the club.
- Louis Howe: Why are you a Democrat?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Democratic Party is the party of the people, and I'm a man of the people.
- Louis Howe: You're a Roosevelt. Since when does a Roosevelt know about people?
- Jake Perini: "There but for the grace of God", they say, as if our bodies were who we are. Well it's not; our souls are who we are, only they don't know it.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [Fred Botts' mother will not led him ride a bicycle because she believes that it gave him polio] Did she sell it?
- Fred Botts: No; she took it out back and shot it.
- [Roosevelt roars with laughter]
- Tom Loyless: Oh, Peabody'll sell, all right.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: What makes you think he will?
- Tom Loyless: Have you taken a look at this place?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Don't talk to me as if I were a child!
- Eleanor Roosevelt: How am I supposed to talk to you?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Like I *was*!
- Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't know how to, any more.
- [last lines]
- 1920's Reporter: Mrs. Roosevelt, do you think that polio has affected your husband's mind?
- Eleanor Roosevelt: [with a huge smile on her face] Yes, I do! I certainly do!
- [at the train station, Loyless replies he's waiting for a Mr. Roosevelt]
- Lionel Purdy: Teddy?
- Tom Loyless: No, he's dead.
- Eloise Hutchinson: [Franklin Roosevelt must hide his disability when speaking politically] I wish he could just wheel himself out in front of everybody.
- Pat Doyle: Eloise, sweetheart, he can't - it's politics.