Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

• 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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• 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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• But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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

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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

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

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

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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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  Tags in Early, Think, Enough, Much, Consider

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

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  Tags in Up, Time, Present, Takes, Bring, Long

• A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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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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• 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 government.

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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

• I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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  Tags in Colleagues, Fellow, Smartest, Smart, Sure

• 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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  Tags in Embodiment, Favor, Because, Space, Brief, Him, Satisfactory, Great, Change, Moment, Purpose, Finds, Some, Human, Come

• 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

• There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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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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