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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" Be sincere; be brief; be seated. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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 out right, we can modify it as we go along. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

" Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" It is fun to be in the same decade with you. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. "

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt