Franklin D. Roosevelt

Cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If I were asked to state the great objective which church and state are both demanding for the sake of every man and woman and child in this country, I would say that that great objective is ‘a more abundant life.’

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt