Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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.
