Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you.

I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

  

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. 

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

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A joke is a very serious thing.

Success is never final.

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.