Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Power, Essence

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.305, Best Books on

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Success, Education, Real

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.538, Best Books on

• Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Witty, Patriotic

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Judging, Judgement, Enemy

• Presidents are selected, not elected.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  President, Politics, Selected

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Political, Politics

• The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Marriage, Couple

• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

• Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Communication, Patriotic, Political

  "asic Public Speaking". Book by Paul L. Soper, p. 12, 1963.

• When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Crush, Peace

  Radio talk, 11 Sept. 1941

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Political, Politics

• There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Fighting, Goal

  Interview, N.Y. Times, 22 Jan. 1911

• A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Feet, Perfectly Good

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

• No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Rights, Political

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1940, Volume 9”, p.408, Best Books on

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Smart, Political, Insightful

• We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Power, America, Politics

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

• We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Politics, Constitution, Court

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

• A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Air, Feet

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Cynical, Political

• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Lying, Government

• We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Mean, Giving

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Oglethorpe University Commencement Address, May 22, 1932.

• The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. 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. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Country, Mistake

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

• I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Doctrine, Politics

• And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sight, Effort, Being Thankful

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

• These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks... but Fala does resent them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Dog, Son, Wife

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