Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

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

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

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.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

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.