Quotes from Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from a 1936 speech in New York City

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

A good story is sometimes preferable to an accurate one.

Let not defeatists tell us that it is too late. It will never be earlier. Tomorrow will be later than today.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.