Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”

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

“There are as many opinions as there are experts.”

“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.”

“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”

“Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”

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

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”

“I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.”

“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”

“Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.”

“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.”

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”

“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”

“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”

“One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.”