Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Quotations

"...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."

- First Inaugural Address

 

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

 

"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."

 

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. "

 

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."

 

"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. "

 

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

 

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

 

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