63 Quotes By 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 on peace

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on politics

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on politics

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 on power

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 on relationship

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on religion

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on religion

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 on science

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 on society

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 on strength

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on strength

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on success

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on time

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on time

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on truth

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on war

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on war

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 on war

War is a contagion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt on war