If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat, — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
