Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

American - President January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945

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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness Success Achievement Effort

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics You Nothing Way

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Power Democracy Government Country

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Science Relationship Peace Live

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

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Motivational You End Reach Your

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education Democracy Choose Choice

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

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Wisdom Forward Way Only

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fear Only Thing Itself

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Intelligence Colleagues Smart World

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good Bird Think Good Luck

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life Hope World Better

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Confidence Live Honesty Honor

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Myself People You New American

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Kindness People Tough Free

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Vote People Voting Nobody

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.

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Today Competition Cooperation Up

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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Today Tomorrow Will Only Limit

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History Progress Enough Test

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Try Common Sense Something Admit

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom People Job True

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men Fate Own Only Minds

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Strength People Nation Giving

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Future Men Determination Government

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

War Beginning End Differences

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nation Soil Itself Destroys

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

God War Live Yesterday

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