Franklin Delano Roosevelt quotes and words of wisdom

"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."
Found in the topic War.

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience."
Found in the topic Evil.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics."
Found in the topic Selfishness.

"I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor."
Found in the topic Ambition.

"The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership."
Found in the topic Leadership.

"The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind ? men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others ? men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves."
Found in the topic Democracy.

"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."
Found in the topic President.

"Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter."
Found in the topic Authority.

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Found in the topic Persecution.

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
Found in the topic Day.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ? nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Found in the topic Assert.

"We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place."
Found in the topic Freedom.

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
Found in the topic Future.

"Nothing is so responsible for the good old days as a bad memory."
Found in the topic Memory.

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad."
Found in the topic School.

"I have a terrific headache. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage."
Found in the topic Last.

"No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
Found in the topic Business.

"They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers ... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order."
Found in the topic Government.

"We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
Found in the topic Desire.

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."
Found in the topic Home.

Interesting Quotes

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.Dame Rose Macaulay - English novelist (1881 - 1958)

Everything has been figured out except how to live.Jean-Paul Sartre - French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980)