A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
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.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
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.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
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.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote
