Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd President of the United States1882–1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt was president from 1933 to 1945, through the Great Depression and most of the Second World War. His first inaugural address, delivered on 4 March 1933, is where one of the most quoted lines in American politics comes from.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. RooseveltFirst Inaugural Address, 4 March 1933