Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

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.

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

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.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

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

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

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.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"