Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”

“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.”

“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”

“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

“One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.”

“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”

“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”

“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.”

“War is a contagion.”

“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”