677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, 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 wantà. The fourth is freedom from fear.

People die, but books never die.

It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

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.

Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.