Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousne...

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

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move for...

So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless unrea...

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests o...

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowl...

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a poin...

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

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers...

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the th...

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules o...

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of eve...

If I were starting life over again I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

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

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of...

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hung...

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - name...

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that han...

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but a...

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

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of ...

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, li...

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does ...

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfe...

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a p...

War is young men dying and old men talking

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent o...

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

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The re...

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

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to ga...

Presidents are selected, not elected.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 w...

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

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends...

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants a...

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America wa...

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economic...

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests o...

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speec...

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

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general ...

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the car...

I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living fo...

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with ...

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish me...

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that...

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

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

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled cons...

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right...

Peace like charity begins at home.

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

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

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the a...

One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, i...

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have...

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hung...

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library reso...

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the a...

War is a contagion.

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

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

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But a...

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protect...

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill o...