
Roosevelt quotes
September 6, 2010
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else we all go down, as one people...
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In the truest sense freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In this life we get nothing save by effort.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is always disagreeable to take stands.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt