F. D. Roosevelt Quotes

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

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.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Do Something Now. If not you, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?

Calm seas never made a good sailor

If YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE..COME SIT BY ME.

We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Tell that to the Marines!

Comparison is the thief of joy.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.