Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

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

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”

“The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.”

“Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there c...”

“I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities de...”

“War is young men dying and old men talking”

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

“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 contr...”

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”

“Presidents are selected, not elected.”

“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of p...”

“Remember you are just an extra in everyone elses play.”

“A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist w...”

“It is the purpose of 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.”

“From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion--some alluring, attractive, ev...”

“Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "malice domestic and fierce foreign war." We are not...”

“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into adva...”