Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

• One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

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• Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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• It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

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• It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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• In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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• In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

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• If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

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• If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

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• 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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• I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

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• I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

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• I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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• 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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• Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

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• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• Don’t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

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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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