Quotes

“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

“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.” Franklin Roosevelt

“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.” 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

“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.” Franklin Roosevelt

“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.” Franklin Roosevelt

“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.” 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

“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

“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.” Franklin Roosevelt

“In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.” Franklin Roosevelt

“There are as many opinions as there are experts.” Franklin Roosevelt

“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.” Franklin Roosevelt

“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.” Franklin Roosevelt

“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.” Franklin Roosevelt

“It is fun to be in the same decade with you.” 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

“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” Franklin Roosevelt

“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

“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

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” Amelia Earhart

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.” Amelia Earhart

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” Amelia Earhart

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.” Amelia Earhart

“I want to do it because I want to do it.” Amelia Earhart

“Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.” Amelia Earhart

“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.” Amelia Earhart

“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.” Amelia Earhart