677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public – on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation.

We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.

There are very few things we can know beforehand. We will try and if we find we are wrong, we will have to change.

America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life – a life that should be new in freedom.

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Chamberlain’s visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

Okay, you’ve convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.