Franklin Roosevelt quotes

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

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

— Franklin Roosevelt

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

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

— Franklin Roosevelt

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

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

— Franklin Roosevelt

“I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

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

— Franklin Roosevelt

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“There are as many opinions as there are experts.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

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

— Franklin Roosevelt

“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

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