When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

More from Franklin D. Roosevelt

• A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
• Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
• This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
• Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date that will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
• You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
• 24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day, coincedence? I think not.