Franklin D. Roosevelt

Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

War is a contagion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt