Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.

War is young men dying and old men talking

I see one-third of a nation ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished...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 that have too little

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.