Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

The frontier of America is on the Rhine.

We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.

Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Great power involves great responsibility

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

I have seen war ... I hate war.

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.

All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation.

Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.