677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Calm seas never made a good sailor

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.