Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was a member of the Democratic Party and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms.
All Time Famous Quotes of Franklin D. Roosevelt
1. “Calm seas never made a good sailor.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
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4. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
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5. “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”
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6. “Great power involves great responsibility.”
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7. “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
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8. “The 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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9. “The 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.”
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10. “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.”
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11. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
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12. “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
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13. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
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14. “Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
15. “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
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16. “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
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17. “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
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18. “Above all, try something.”
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19. “People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.”
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20. “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
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21. “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
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22. “Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”
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23. “First 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.”
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24. “Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom reality.”
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25. “Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.”
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26. “Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”
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27. “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
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28. “The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.”
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29. “Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.”
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30. “Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.”
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31. “December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.”
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32. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
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33. “It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”
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34. “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.”
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35. “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
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36. “To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.”
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37. “Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”
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38. “Presidents are selected, not elected.”
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39. “If 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.”
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40. “Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.”
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41. “I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.”
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42. “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”
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43. “The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.””
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44. “That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.”
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45. “No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.”
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46. “Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.”
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47. “Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.”
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48. “Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.”
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49. “If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.”
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50. “Necessitous men are not free men.”
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51. “The real safeguard of democracy is education.”
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52. “When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.”
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53. “We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.”
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54. “Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”
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55. “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”
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56. “No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.”
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57. “No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”
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58. “The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.”
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59. “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
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60. “When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.”
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61. “Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.”
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62. “We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time.”
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63. “Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.”
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64. “Peace, like charity, begins at home.”
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65. “We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace – business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.”
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66. “Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.”
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67. “Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.”
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68. “I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
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69. “Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.”
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70. “Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”
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71. “Tell that to the Marines!”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
72. “We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
73. “I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
74. “Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.”
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75. “The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.”
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76. “Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
77. “The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”
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78. “Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.”
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79. “The first twelve years are the hardest.”
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80. “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 D. Roosevelt
81. “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”
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82. “To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.”
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83. “The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”
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84. “We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.”
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85. “Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement.”
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86. “Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.”
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87. “Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.”
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88. “They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.”
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89. “Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.”
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90. “The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred…”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
91. “I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.”
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92. “A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers.”
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93. “It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead – and find no one there.”
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94. “I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
95. “Better 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.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
96. “Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
97. “I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
98. “Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men’s enlightened will.”
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99. “Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.”
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100. “Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
101. “The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .”
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102. “We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.”
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103. “No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.”
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104. “This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
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105. “A 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.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
106. “Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.”
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107. “On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia…”
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108. “Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.”
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109. “Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.”
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110. “Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.”
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111. “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.”
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112. “The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.”
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113. “Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.”
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114. “Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.”
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115. “If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.”
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116. “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
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117. “Okay, you’ve convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.”
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118. “There are as many opinions as there are experts.”
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119. “We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution – not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
120. “A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
121. “It is fun to be in the same decade with you.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
122. “The 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 goverment.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
123. “We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”
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124. “That, in essence is Fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.”
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125. “Chamberlain’s visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.”
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126. “Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
127. “In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.”
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128. “A nation, like a person, has a mind – a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors – all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.”
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129. “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.”
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130. “We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”
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131. “Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.”
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132. “The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
133. “In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident…”
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134. “A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.”
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135. “The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now – not only from a military enemy but from an enemy of all law, all liberty, all morality, all religion.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
136. “Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”
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137. “Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.”
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138. “No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.”
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139. “I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.”
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140. “The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.”
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141. “There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”
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142. “I love it – I just love it.”
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143. “The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.”
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144. “Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.”
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145. “Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.”
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146. “Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.”
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147. “All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.”
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148. “Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.”
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149. “I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.”
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150. “I have a terrific headache.”
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151. “The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory.”
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152. “Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.”
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153. “The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.”
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154. “We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people’s freedom.”
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155. “There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people’s progress.”
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156. “To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.”
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157. “I think this would be a good time for a beer.”
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158. “All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River.”
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159. “The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.”
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160. “We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”
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161. “We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.”
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162. “The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.”
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163. “General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.”
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164. “Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.”
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165. “The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.”
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166. “The whole world is one neighborhood.”
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167. “Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.”
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168. “We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.”
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169. “The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
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170. “All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.”
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171. “The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.”
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172. “People die, but books never die.”
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173. “More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.”
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174. “If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.”
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175. “Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.”
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176. “The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.”
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177. “Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.”
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178. “It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.”
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179. “I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.”
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180. “My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.”
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181. “It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
182. “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
183. “Research is one of the Nation’s very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.”
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184. “We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.”
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185. “I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.”
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186. “I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature’s wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.”
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187. “I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.”
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188. “If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.”
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189. “There 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.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
190. “Books cannot be killed by fire.”
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191. “New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.”
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192. “The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public – on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.”
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193. “To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.”
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194. “Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.”
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195. “It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.”
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196. “Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
197. “Organized money hates me – and I welcome their hatred!”
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198. “All work undertaken should be useful – not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.”
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199. “I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
200. “It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.”
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