Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
-
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
-
I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
-
Eight years ago, when the life of this Republic seemed frozen by a fatalistic terror, we proved that this is not true. We were in the midst of shock - but we acted. We acted quickly, boldly, decisively.
-
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
-
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
-
I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
-
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
-
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
-
I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster.