677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: “There is no indispensable man”

I see one-third of a nation ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished... the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those that have too little.

To reach a port we must set sail.

I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature’s wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

A nation, like a person, has a mind – a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors – all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.

The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all – it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

Above all, try something.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940.