Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

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

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

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.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot & hang on.

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

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

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 public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

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