“We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address (1945)

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.”

“Worrying and anxiety go together, but worry is not an emotion; it's the thinking part of anxiety.”

“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.”

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”

“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”