Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 who have little.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt