Top 80 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

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.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.