Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

“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.”

“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 government.”

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

“We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.”

“We must be the great arsenal of democracy.”

“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked.”

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.”

“If civilisation 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”

“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.”

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

“It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.”

“There are as many opinions as there are experts.”

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

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

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

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

“Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”

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

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

“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.”

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”

“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”