Top 80 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

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

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

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 must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.