Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
Most popular Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
There's no indispensable man.
There is no indispensable man.
There is no indispensable human.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Peace like charity begins at home.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
The truth is found when people are free to pursue it.
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted—in the air.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
A Government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who refuses to walk forward.
The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward.
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
Remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Eternal truths will be neither true or eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living — a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
We all know that books burn — yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die.
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
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 too little.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
The gains of education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities—a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Wise and prudent men — intelligent conservatives — have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars — yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third freedom is from want....The fourth is freedom from fear.
The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out the balance also the lives of men.
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.
