" The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality. "

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

" The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" Be sincere; be brief; be seated. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. "

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

" The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" 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 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" 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 too little. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" Be sincere; be brief; be seated. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" It is fun to be in the same decade with you. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston Churchill 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" 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 too little. "

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

" They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. "

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

" More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd president of US (1882 – 1945)

" Above all, try something. "

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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