Franklin D. Roosevelt Political Quotations

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 all go down as one people.

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

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

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

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.