Top 80 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

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.

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

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.