F. D. Roosevelt Quotes

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings

The whole world is one neighborhood.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.