677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

The only thing we have to fear...is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments and their very foundations are set. The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fight. To save one, we must now make up our minds to save all.

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.