Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes

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

He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he’s our SOB.

There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy… They are: equality of opportunity for youth and for others, jobs for those who can work, security for those who need it, the ending of special privilege for the few, the preservation of civil liberties for all, the enjoyment of the fruits […]

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill).

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home and abroad;

I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.