Franklin D. Roosevelt

Quotes

• “If I were starting life over again I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference t...”
• “A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, ...”
• “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes s...”
• “We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the...”
• “Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and delib...”
• “Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy ar...”
• “I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and...”
• “The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a ...”
• “There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can ...”
• “I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are poss...”
• “I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves pro...”
• “So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless unreasoning unjustified ...”
• “More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughl...”
• “True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job ...”
• “If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all...”
• “The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity an...”
• “Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determinatio...”
• “Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a govern...”
• “True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job ...”
• “It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welf...”
• “Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by paymen...”
• “I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national...”
• “Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds ...”
• “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide eno...”
• “No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true...”
• “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh ...”
• “Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area i...”
• “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel...”
• “The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever wr...”
• “No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general ...”
• “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try someth...”
• “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
• “To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.”
• “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
• “People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.”
• “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
• “I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.”
• “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
• “Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.”
• “The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
• “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
• “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
• “War is young men dying and old men talking”
• “Presidents are selected, not elected.”
• “Peace like charity begins at home.”
• “War is a contagion.”