Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

• The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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• 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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• I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

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• I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

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• It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

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• It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent labor unions.

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• If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce.

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  Tags in Advertising, Travel, Choice

• Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

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  Tags in Join, Factory, Union, First, Went, Thing

• I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

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  Tags in Neither, Immaturity, Cynical, Nor, Am, Political, Less, Bitter, Thinking

• No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.

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• 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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• 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.

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  Tags in Creating, Importation, Peoples, Treasure, Land, Present

• A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

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• No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

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• There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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• A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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  Tags in Reactionary, Walking, Backward

• I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

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• 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.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt (91)

Birth:	30th January, 1882
Death:	12th April, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York, USA. He was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party for many years as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. He graduated from Harvard in 1903 with an A.B. in history. He received an honorary LL.D. from Harvard in 1929. He later received a posthumous J.D. from Columbia Law School.

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