Franklin D Roosevelt quotes

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

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.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

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

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.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

War is a contagion.

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.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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.

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

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

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

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

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.

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

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.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

War is a contagion.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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

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.

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.

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