677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.