677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

The school spirit for our sport is very high, ... They were able to bring it back under control. I am very pleased.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.