Quotes By Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

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

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

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.

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.

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.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

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.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

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

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

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.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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.

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.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

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