677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we forget in time that men have died to win them.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all the living and creating peoples.

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilization. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

Americans today are just as rugged and just as tough as any of the heroes we celebrate on the Fourth of July.

Be sincere...be brief..be seated.