Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace like charity begins at home.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt