Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

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

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

These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

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.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

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.