Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I am a Democrat, but I am not a partisan. I am an American.

No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going forward with the firm belief that a better day is coming.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

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

I am not a magician. I am a public servant. I am trying to do my job.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of any one man, or any one party, or any one nation. It must be a peace which rests upon the cooperative effort of the whole world.

The overwhelming majority of the people of the world want peace.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

We cannot be content, no matter how high the standard of living in America, if that standard is based on the exploitation of the human family in other parts of the world.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The true conservative is the man who has a real interest in conserving his country, and his community, and his fellow citizens.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials, but the voters of this country.

The United States of America has been a land of refuge for the oppressed from every land.

I am confident that the American people will not be stampeded by the small minority who are trying to make us believe that democracy is a failure.