President · American · 1882 – 1945 · 82 quotes
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President · American · 1882 – 1945
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
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.
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
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.
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
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.
I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
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.
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
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.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
War is a contagion.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
