The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are as many opinions as there are experts.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

War is a contagion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt