Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nature, Women, Men

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Work, Union, Join

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Making, United, Finished

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 D. Roosevelt

War, Live, America

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Faith, Strength, Spiritual

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom, Government, Strong

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religion, Real, Aspiration

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today, Tomorrow, Limit

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Christian, Democrat

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good, Bad, Enough

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men, Government, Future

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 D. Roosevelt

Best, Moment, Sure

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

Hope, Life, Belief

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 D. Roosevelt

Yourself, Ask, Sufficient

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

True, Enemy, Affection

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Forward, Ways, Standing

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Human, Often, Failing

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government, Rules, United

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nation, Soil, Destroys

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men, Business, Mean

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 D. Roosevelt

War, End, Between

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Him, Wait, Until

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life, Art, Past

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 D. Roosevelt

History, Forward, Point

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Society, Trying, Country

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: January 30, 1882

Died: April 12, 1945

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