F. D. Roosevelt Quotes
We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.
We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.
A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill
I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.
All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.
I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.
If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.
I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.
We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.
Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin.
The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.
If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.
More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.
All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.
The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative
After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.
Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.
There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind
Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.
It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.