Franklin D Roosevelt on Vision Quotes

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

"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms."

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."

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

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence."

"To reach a port we must sail-sail, not tie at anchor-sail, not drift."

"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

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

"Cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off."

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

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

"The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are: Equality of opportunity for youth and for others."

"The joy of work is the best medicine for the soul."

"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity or it will move apart."

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

"The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation."

"The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are worthy of it."

"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."

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely."

"We have earned the right to look forward to a world in which the people of all nations may live in peace and in safety."

"I see a great nation, upon a great continent, blessed with a great wealth of natural resources."

"We must be the great arsenal of democracy."

"We are going to win the war and we are going to win the peace that follows."

"Our progress out of the depression is obvious. But that is not all that you and I should think about. We must also think about the future."

"Industrial combinations are not wrong in themselves, but they are wrong if they use their power to the detriment of the public."

"In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor."

"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize."

"We must lay the foundations of a world in which all peoples may feel a sense of economic and social security."

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."

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

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"I see an America where factory workers are not mere tools of production, but the partners and the directors of production."