F. D. Roosevelt Quotes

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.

Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are.

Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

I never waste time looking back.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.