Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy...”

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

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

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”

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

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

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