Top 80 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.