Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes

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

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

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

Presidents are selected, not elected.

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.

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

Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.

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

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.... Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.