F. D. Roosevelt Quotes

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man.

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

Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

All of life is a constant education.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

It is not the critic who counts

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

I think this would be a good time for a beer.