Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

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

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

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

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

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.

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

We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time

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

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

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

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.