Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
 
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

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 too little.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved