Top 80 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

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

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

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 only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

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.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.