677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

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

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams.

I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.