Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

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

"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."

"Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men."

"Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little."

"The frontier of America is on the Rhine"

"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear."

"He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live, and grow, and increase its blessings. Freedom lives, and through it, he lives - in a way that humbles the undertakings of most men."

"There is no indispensable man."

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."

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

"Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society"

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

"The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability."

"Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

"Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business … has been a menace to … American society."

"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. - former US President 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."

"The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred..."

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