Quotes By Franklin D. Roosevelt

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

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

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

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.

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.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

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.