Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

What America needs now is a drink.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

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

The best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.

The real safeguard of democracy is education.

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

The whole world is one neighborhood.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

If you treat people right they will treat you right...

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

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

Do the best you can do and wait for the results in peace.

I want to preach a new doctrine. Complete separation of business and government.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Above all, try something

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

People die, but books never die.