Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our milky way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

Franklin D. Roosevelt