Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes:- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. FDR was born into a wealthy family as the only child of James Roosevelt and Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. The Roosevelts had been prominent for several generations, having made their fortune in real estate and trade, and lived at Springwood, their estate in the Hudson River Valley in New York State. While growing up, Franklin D. Roosevelt was surrounded by privilege and a sense of self-importance.
Inspirational Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backward.”-“-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Impression
“Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Ability
“Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to an ability to pay. That is the only American principle.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Good Luck
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Depression
“If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On political
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Failing
“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.”-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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It is fun to be in the same decade with you.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose of.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Present
“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Government
“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”-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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On People
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Moment
“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 outright, we can modify it as we go along.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Business
“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the businessmen of every industrial area in the whole country.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Try
“Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Freedom
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The overwhelming majority of Americans have possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Prosperity
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Government
“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There are as many opinions as there are experts.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Generations
“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations, much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“To reach a port, we must sail – Sail, not tie at anchor – Sail, not drift.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Freedom
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“War is a contagion.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Power
“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.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Tie
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
