F. D. Roosevelt Quotes
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!
The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it.
Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.
If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.
I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.
I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.
A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.
To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.
The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.
I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.
Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.
Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.
We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.
Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man.
