Ifs Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those of you who have been there Haiti know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt