Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

• No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Business, Country

  Tags in Workers, Existence

• It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Victims, Strategy

• We have the men-the skill-the wealth-and above all, the will… We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

• When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I have seen war… I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Let me assert my belief that the only thing that we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror that paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

• In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbour.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Politics

• Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Inspirational, Life, Truth

• The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self Image

• We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression–everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship G-d in his own way– everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want…everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear…..anywhere in the world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom

• Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom And Liberty

• Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact if spiritual force.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Spirituality

  Tags in Never, Strength, Force

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Luck

  Tags in Good, Think

• A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Tags in Reaction

• Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt (91)

Birth:	30th January, 1882
Death:	12th April, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York, USA. He was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party for many years as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. He graduated from Harvard in 1903 with an A.B. in history. He received an honorary LL.D. from Harvard in 1929. He later received a posthumous J.D. from Columbia Law School.

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