Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women.

I doubt if there is in the world a single problem, whether social, political, or economic, which would not find ready solution if men and nations would rule their lives according to the plain teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

On this tenth day in June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn’t turn out, we modify it.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.