Top 80 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

War is a contagion.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

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.

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.

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.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

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