Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
- 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.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt