677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again--and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time

Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.