Occupation: 32nd U.S. President Birth: January 30, 1882 Death: April 12, 1945
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic s….
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way..
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him..
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, wa….
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it..
Calm seas never made a good sailor.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth..
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks ….
People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about..
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear..
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else..
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little..
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself..
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senator….
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..
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees..
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictat….
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists..
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself..
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests..
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still..