“Throughout the world, change is the order of the day.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second State of the Union Address (4 January 1935)

About Franklin D. Roosevelt

1882 – 1945

Thirty-second President of the United States, who led the country through the Great Depression and most of World War II.

“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected.”

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”

“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.”

“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.”

“All progress means war with Society.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”