Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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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.
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There seems to be no question that Mussolini is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.
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I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.
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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.
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Democracy is not dying. We know it because we have seen it revive - and grow. We know it cannot die - because it is built on the unhampered initiative of individual men and women joined together in a common enterprise - an enterprise undertaken and carried through by the free expression of a free majority.
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
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We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land.
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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.
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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
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To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.
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I'm just afraid that I may not have the strength to do this job. After you leave me tonight, Jimmy, I am going to pray. I am going to pray that God will help me, that he will give me the strength and the guidance to do this job and to do it right. I hope that you will pray for me, too, Jimmy.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
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We have undertaken a new order of things; yet we progress to it under the framework and in the spirit and intent of the American Constitution. We have proceeded throughout the Nation a measurable distance on the road toward this new order.
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Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
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I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster.