Franklin Roosevelt quotes

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“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“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.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“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.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“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.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”

— Franklin Roosevelt

“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.”

— Franklin Roosevelt