Quotes By Franklin Roosevelt

The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams.

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

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Necessitous men are not free men.

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

Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones.

If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient.

It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. It permeated the ancient life of early peoples. It blazed anew in the Middle Ages. It was written in Magna Charta.

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbour.

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity.

A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.