Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
3393The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.
2709Freedom 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.
4456Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
2352Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
2581Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
4159First 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.
2568Books 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.
2107A 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.
4609The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
3488We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
4475Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
4314Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
4304Presidents are selected, not elected.
3465A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.
2997It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.
4475In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
4454If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
3390If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.
3638True 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.
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4687The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.
1988There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
2996I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
1983We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
3360We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
2879The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
1764The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
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