American
President and
Politician
(January 30,
1882 -
April 12,
1945)
"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 pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people."
"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."
"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want."
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments."
"No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
"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."
"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics."
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
