F. D. Roosevelt Quotes

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.

I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

No one can move without some leadership.

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.

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

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

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

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.

I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.

Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

These are bad days for all of us who remember always that when real world forces come into conflict, the final result is never as dark as we mortals guess it in very difficult days.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

This nation asks for action, and action now.

It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.