Franklin D. Roosevelt

But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Chamberlain’s visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people’s money, other people’s business, other people’s labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

Franklin D. Roosevelt