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Franklin Delano Roosevelt quotes (35) Nothing is so responsible for the good old days as a bad memory. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Memory The only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Assert We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Selfishness The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Easy We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Desire We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place he must have equal opportunity in the market place. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Freedom They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers ... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Government More than an end to war we want an end to the beginning of all wars yes an end to this brutal inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: War The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Progress Happiness ... it lies in the joy of achievement in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Happiness It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all try something. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Factory The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Day Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Life I have a terrific headache. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Last Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Sports Be sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: President We cannot always build the future for our youth but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Future A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Environment ... in politics nothing is accidental. If something happens be assured it was planned this way. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Politics The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind men and women who are just and understanding and generous to others men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Democracy To reach a port we must sail sail not tie at anchor sail not drift. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Sailor The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Truth We are a nation of many nationalities many races many religions bound together by a single unity the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another seeks to degrade all nationalities. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Nation 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. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Authority There are many ways of going forward but only one way of standing still. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Do 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. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: School There is nothing I love as much as a good fight. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Fight When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Persecution The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Leadership I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Ambition Men are not prisoners of fate but only prisoners of their own mind. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Fate No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Business No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Evil Peace like charity begins at home. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Home A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Conservative |
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