Quotes By Franklin Roosevelt

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

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

What America needs now is a drink.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

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

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off

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

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.

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

The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need.

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

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 or ancestry.

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales.

Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

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

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.