Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

• We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• 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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• War is a contagion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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• The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

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• The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

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• The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

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• 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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• The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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• Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

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• Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

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• 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.

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• 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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• Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

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• Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

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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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