Quotes By Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 thing we have to fear is fear itself.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

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.

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.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.