Roosevelt might feel right at home in today’s world, with its economies damaged by greed and corruption, its high unemployment, its nascent labor movements, and sense of impending doom. He was also a Democrat who was handed a legacy created mostly by the Republican administrations before him. Interesting. Here’s to you, Franky.

Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
- 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.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt