Way Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second…

— 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

“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

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving…

— 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

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

[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

Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the…

— 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 history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt