“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.” Franklin Roosevelt War
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” Franklin Roosevelt BadGoodLifeLuckWisdomThinkEnoughBirdWormConsiderEarly
“It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.” Franklin Roosevelt
“One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.” Franklin Roosevelt Best
“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.” Franklin Roosevelt
“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.” Franklin Roosevelt AmbitionPower
“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.” Franklin Roosevelt
“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” Franklin Roosevelt LieLife
“Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.” Franklin Roosevelt
“In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.” Franklin Roosevelt
“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.” Franklin Roosevelt FunnyWalkingSomnambulistBackwards
“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.” Franklin Roosevelt
“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” Franklin Roosevelt LawNatureWisdomFactHuman
“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” Franklin Roosevelt LostWiseVirtueSelf-interestRiverSea
“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.” Franklin Roosevelt HistoryWar
“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.” Franklin Roosevelt
“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.” Franklin Roosevelt PastTimeBringLong time
