677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across every ocean in the biggest, the most difficult and dangerous job ever undertaken. As time goes on, there will be greater public understanding of our merchant's fleet record during this war.

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!