Quotes By Franklin Roosevelt

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

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

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.