Top 80 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

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

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

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

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.