Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

"A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air."

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

"Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter."

"Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad."

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics."

"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." - Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." - Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933