Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

It Is Fun To Be In The Same Decade With You.

But While They Prate Of Economic Laws, Men And Women Are Starving. We Must Lay Hold Of The Fact That Economic Laws Are Not Made By Nature. They Are Made By Human Beings.

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 Takes A Long Time To Bring The Past Up To The Present.

Nobody Will Ever Deprive The American People Of The Right To Vote Except The American People Themselves And The Only Way They Could Do This Is By Not Voting.

Art Is Not A Treasure In The Past Or An Importation From Another Land, But Part Of The Present Life Of All Living And Creating Peoples.

If You Treat People Right They Will Treat You Right... Ninety Percent Of The Time.

The Virtues Are Lost In Self-interest As Rivers Are Lost In The Sea.

We Continue To Recognize The Greater Ability Of Some To Earn More Than Others. But We Do Assert That The Ambition Of The Individual To Obtain For Him A Proper Security Is An Ambition To Be Preferred To The Appetite For Great Wealth And Great Power.

There Is Nothing I Love As Much As A Good Fight.

More Than An End To War, We Want An End To The Beginning Of All Wars - Yes, An End To This Brutal, Inhuman And Thoroughly Impractical Method Of Settling The Differences Between Governments.

Take A Method And Try It. If It Fails, Admit It Frankly, And Try Another. But By All Means, Try Something.

Be Sincere; Be Brief; Be Seated.

Are You Laboring Under The Impression That I Read These Memoranda Of Yours? I Can't Even Lift Them.

The Only Sure Bulwark Of Continuing Liberty Is A Government Strong Enough To Protect The Interests Of The People, And A People Strong Enough And Well Enough Informed To Maintain Its Sovereign Control Over The Goverment.

The Truth Is Found When Men Are Free To Pursue It.

The Truth Is Found When Men Are Free To Pursue It.

The Point In History At Which We Stand Is Full Of Promise And Danger. The World Will Either Move Forward Toward Unity And Widely Shared Prosperity - Or It Will Move Apart.

It Is The Duty Of The President To Propose And It Is The Privilege Of The Congress To Dispose.

The Overwhelming Majority Of Americans Are Possessed Of Two Great Qualities A Sense Of Humor And A Sense Of Proportion.

Our National Determination To Keep Free Of Foreign Wars And Foreign Entanglements Cannot Prevent Us From Feeling Deep Concern When Ideals And Principles That We Have Cherished Are Challenged.

The United States Constitution Has Proved Itself The Most Marvelously Elastic Compilation Of Rules Of Government Ever Written.

We Must Lay Hold Of The Fact That Economic Laws Are Not Made By Nature. They Are Made By Human Beings.

No Group And No Government Can Properly Prescribe Precisely What Should Constitute The Body Of Knowledge With Which True Education Is Concerned.

I Do Not Look Upon These United States As A Finished Product. We Are Still In The Making.

Rules Are Not Necessarily Sacred, Principles Are.

Human Kindness Has Never Weakened The Stamina Or Softened The Fiber Of A Free People. A Nation Does Not Have To Be Cruel To Be Tough.

I'm Not The Smartest Fellow In The World, But I Can Sure Pick Smart Colleagues.

The Nation That Destroys Its Soil Destroys Itself.

War Is A Contagion.