Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.”

“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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