quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only thing to fear is fear itself."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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 too little."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You are only an extra in everyone else's play."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"First of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!"
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

""I love it--I just love it.""
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

"In my promises to you before and after March 4, I made two things plain: First, that I pledged no miracles and, second, that I would do my best."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

"We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The moneychangers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt