Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

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.

Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

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

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.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.