Roosevelt quotes

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