Quotes by Franlin D. Roosevelt

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

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

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.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

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.

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.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

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.

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

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

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.
(Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941)

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.
(First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933)

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
(in a letter to Winston Churchill)

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
(message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945)

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
(Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939)

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
(quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977)

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
(radio address, Oct. 26, 1939)

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
(radio address, October 26, 1939)

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
(Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936)

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
(Speech, September 22, 1936)