Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

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...

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "malice domestic and fierce foreign war." We are not ri...

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peac...

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walk...

War is a contagion.

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion--some alluring, attractive, even...

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

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

Presidents are selected, not elected.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make...

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in...

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.