Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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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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In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and to perpetuate the integrity of democracy. For this we muster the spirit of America, and the faith of America. We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
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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 virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
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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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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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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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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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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
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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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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
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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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I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
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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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I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
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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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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.
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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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It seems to be unfortunately true that the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading. When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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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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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.