3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt 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.
