Franklin D. Roosevelt
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.Collection: Government
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.Collection: Government
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.Collection: Life
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Collection: Success
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: History
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.Collection: Peace
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.Collection: Faith
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.Collection: Humor
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.Collection: Government
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.Collection: Intelligence
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.Collection: Future
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.Collection: Good
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.Collection: Space
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.Collection: Power
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Power
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.Collection: Society
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.Collection: Government
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Independence
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.Collection: Strength
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.Collection: Best
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.Collection: Men
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.Collection: Education
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. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.Collection: War
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.Collection: Politics
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 little.Collection: History
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.Collection: War
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.Collection: Work
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Freedom
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.Collection: Politics
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.Collection: Men
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.Collection: Religion
War is a contagion.Collection: War
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
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.
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.
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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.