Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the figure of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

"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

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. 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."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Doubts today limit tomorrow's possibilities."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

""The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.""

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do not limit the realization of tomorrow with your doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

"It also is an occasion for remembering that in the truest sense freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be achieved; and that there must be constant vigilance if it is to be maintained."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

""I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.""

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free. … If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We must be the great arsenal of Democracy."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Yesterday, December 7, 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

"Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Knowledge — that is, education in its true sense — is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To reach a port, we must set sail—sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you come to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Be Sincere; be brief, be seated"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Fear is the only thing we have to fear."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Our only limitation in realizing tomorrow will be our current doubts."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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 little."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The things, which he achieved in the face of early handicaps, will for all time afford an inspiration of youth everywhere."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only Limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do not limit the realisation of tomorrow with your doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind – men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others -- men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing government. The nation looked to government but the government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair! Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that government is best which is most indifferent. For nearly four years you have had an administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred. I should like to have it said of my first administration that in it, the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it, these forces met their master."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Inside the polling booth, every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race and ancestry. A good American is one who is loyal to this country and to our creed of liberty and democracy."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The Only Limit to Our Realization of Tomorrow Will Be Our Doubts of Today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

""We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.""

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt