Quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

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

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.