Top 80 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

War is a contagion.

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.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

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.