45 quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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 D. Roosevelt

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“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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

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“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

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“War is a contagion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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

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“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

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“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.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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

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“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 D. Roosevelt

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“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

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“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

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“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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 D. Roosevelt

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

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“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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