Quotes 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.

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

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

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

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

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.