Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt (President/American).
Showing 1-25 of 76
Votes
[+]
15
[-]
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.
Votes
[+]
8
[-]
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Votes
[+]
12
[-]
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.
Votes
[+]
21
[-]
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Votes
[+]
16
[-]
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.
Votes
[+]
11
[-]
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Area, Business, Country, Employment, Every, Farmers, Industrial, Mean, Men, More, Prosperity, Prosperous, Whole, Workers
Votes
[+]
11
[-]
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Votes
[+]
14
[-]
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Votes
[+]
28
[-]
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Votes
[+]
11
[-]
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Democratic, Depends, Determination, Economic, Employment, Future, Give, Government, Idle, Institutions, Men, Only, Our, Very
Votes
[+]
8
[-]
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Votes
[+]
9
[-]
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.
Votes
[+]
11
[-]
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.
Votes
[+]
6
[-]
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Votes
[+]
31
[-]
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.
Votes
[+]
7
[-]
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Votes
[+]
8
[-]
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.
Votes
[+]
6
[-]
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Votes
[+]
5
[-]
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Votes
[+]
7
[-]
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Votes
[+]
15
[-]
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.
Votes
[+]
13
[-]
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Votes
[+]
8
[-]
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.
Votes
[+]
11
[-]
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Top 10 Authors
Henry Rollins | 479 |
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | 175 |
Douglas Coupland | 279 |
William Shakespeare | 204 |
Francis Bacon | 133 |
Brad Goreski | 159 |
Lady Gaga | 173 |
Noam Chomsky | 451 |
Hippocrates | 26 |
Gilbert K. Chesterton | 141 |