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N.B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.

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

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

By Franklin D. Roosevelt