Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source:Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (4 March 1933).

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Message to Congress, January 11, 1944.

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.

Source: Speech in 1935, as quoted by Donna E. Shalala, as Secretary of Health and Human Services, in a speech to the American Public Welfare Association (27 February 1995)

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

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Speech in 1935, as quoted by Donna E. Shalala, as Secretary of Health and Human Services, in a speech to the American Public Welfare Association (27 February 1995).

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (December 2, 1919), quoted in Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., Roosevelt and Howe (Knopf: 1962), page: 153.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (December 2, 1919), quoted in Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., Roosevelt and Howe (Knopf: 1962), page: 153.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt; First Inaugural Address (4 March 1933).