677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will.

We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.

We should never forge those that did not return,

What America needs now is a drink,

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.