Franklin Delano Roosevelt quotes

1882–1945 · Hyde Park, NY

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

• The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

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

• 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.

• So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.