Franklin D. Roosevelt

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Speech, September 22, 1936
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - radio address, October 26, 1939
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - in a letter to Winston Churchill
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt