Franklin D. Roosevelt
President who led the U.S. through the Depression and World War II with bold reforms.
Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
A good many people are afraid of the word 'experiment' and I do not like it. I would rather use the word 'try out'.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
December 7th, 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.
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 its government.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation... It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.
Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
The United States has no right to be called a democracy if it continues to deny the right to vote to its citizens because of their color.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. 'Necessitous men are not free men.'
The American people are not in a mood to be trifled with.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
The best way to do good to the poor is not to make them easy in poverty, but to lead or drive them out of it.
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.