
Roosevelt quotes
September 6, 2010
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all war.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No country can long endure if its foundations are not laid deep in the material prosperity which comes from thrift, from business energy and enterprise, from hard, unsparing effort in the fields of industrial activity; but neither was any nation ever yet truly great if it relied upon material prosperity alone. All honor must lie paid to the architects of our material prosperity, to the great captains of industry who have built our factories and our railroads to the strong men who toil for wealth with brain or hand; for great is the debt of the nation to these and their kind.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
No matter how long it may take us to overcome the premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
On this tenth day of June 1940 the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Our average fellow-citizen is a sane and healthy man, who believes in decency and has a wholesome mind.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
- Eleanor Roosevelt