Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes: 12

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

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

• The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

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

• Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

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

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

• Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

• The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

• A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

• 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.

• I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171]