Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident ...
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.
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead
and to find no one there.
and to find no one there.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Until Henry Ford saw the chance to get free publicity (making Sub-chasers) he thought submarines were something to eat.
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that
men have died to win them.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
men have died to win them.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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 United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.
People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.