677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.

We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time

when only a president could have that kind of accommodation.

Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

I believe that the fundamental proposition is that we must recognize that the hostilities in Europe, in Africa, and in Asia are all parts of a single world conflict. We must, consequently, recognize that our interests are menaced both in Europe and in the Far East.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.