F. D. Roosevelt Quotes

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

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.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.

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.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.