F. D. Roosevelt Quotes

All the resources we need are in the mind.

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.

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

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

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.

[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.

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

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

You do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Work hard at work worth doing.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

With great victory comes great sacrifice.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

You never know anyone until you marry them.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.

It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based on the principles of the Bible. No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

There are rainy days in autumn and stormy days in winter when the rocking chair in front of the fire simply demands an accompanying book.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.