Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
1882 – 1945
Thirty-second President of the United States, who led the country through the Great Depression and most of World War II.
“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.”
“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
“I am that kind of conservative because I am that kind of liberal.”
“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
“The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.”
“The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.”
“Enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.”
“Unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.”
“We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.”
“We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately — but we still shall strive.”
