Franklin D. Roosevelt
34 quotations
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
There is no indispensable man.
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
Be sincere, be brief; be seated.
Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.