In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot ...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the...
CAMILLE PAGLIA In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close tie...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
GAYLORD NELSON George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand s...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, hones...
CORNEL WEST In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America'...
ROBERT DALLEK The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection ...
TARJA HALONEN It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Fr...
GORE VIDAL I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train,
BOB EDWARDS You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched p...
WALTER LIPPMANN The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order durin...
HELEN THOMAS How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
ANDREW VACHSS Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID R. GERGEN Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID GERGEN My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this cou...
DENNIS KUCINICH Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like dri...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like dri...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott...
ROBERT DALLEK I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President...
RICHARD TRUMKA It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Ro...
PETER JENNINGS Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of i...
STEVEN ERIKSON We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of i...
STEVEN ERIKSON Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we ...
SAMUEL SMILES The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we a...
GAYLORD NELSON Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once;...
SAMUEL SMILES Love is a coin that cannot be bought or sold but must be given.
JEFFREY FRY If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS... Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
DAVID ALLAN COE “Greatness cannot be achieved without passion of purpose"
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Wa...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roo...
ROBERT DALLEK The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative atti...
JOEL OSTEEN When President Roosevelt signed Social Security into law in 1935, 65 percent of African Americans na...
TA-NEHISI COATES Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.
spoken on Book TV by a Jack...
JUSTICE ROBERT JACKSON Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
HENRIK TIKKANEN Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
PETE DU PONT Society cannot be insane, only the individual can. Because sanity is a label dictated by society's r...
LUIS ALBERTO ICAZA At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot b...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
HERBERT HOOVER We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equa...
WILLIAM FAULKNER My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My fav...
LANGSTON HUGHES I oppose registration for the draft . . . because I believe the security of freedom can best be achi...
RONALD REAGAN The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it i...
KEN LIVINGSTONE Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-...
RUSSELL BAKER How to change the world:
• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
GERMANY KENT All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.
WILFRED OWEN I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to...
ANN RICHARDS The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protec...
JANE ADDAMS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth th...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be.
DEBASISH MRIDHA If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Ro...
JEFF GREENFIELD Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
AL SHARPTON Happiness can be found and achieved but it cannot be forced One will only achieve happiness if they ...
ANIKA SHARMA It's sad in the sense that I know it's going to be over in a couple weeks. But it's comforting to kn...
CASEY MANNING Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.
AMY JOY I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in...
DEYTH BANGER FDR’s struggle with illness and subsequent metal-filled life are remarkably similar to the story o...
DANIEL O'BRIEN Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Not...
PHILIP YANCEY Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
JEFFREY SACHS The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-gene...
CHRISTINE PELOSI We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet.
KATE MILLER Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on dow...
JAMES ROOSEVELT If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestruct...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.
JOHN OLVER Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His ...
CHRISTINA ROMER There is a difference between love and to be in love. Just like there is a difference between a diam...
CORTNIE GOODNIGHT "if it hurts when you laugh, it's a good indication you need to do it more often, you may not live a...
SHAUN PARKER Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the true...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It is personal connections and relationships. And if you look back to a Franklin Roosevelt, a John K...
DAVID GARROW One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON Who is most likely to bother about your happiness? You, yourself. So like yourself, love yourself, c...
EVERSKEPTIC Love in its truest form must hurt the most, for without hurt it is not love
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Greatness cannot be achieved outside of your purpose despite the height of success you attain
SUNDAY ADELAJA Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the...
SARAH BERNHARDT You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It is important to make it quite clear that our society and the government defend freedom of express...
LAILA FREIVALDS So, yes, in that sense, things look pretty good for Franklin.
AMY SAWYER The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real underst...
H.E. DAVEY One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global econom...
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There are as many opinions as there are experts.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: There is no indispensable man.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those of you who have been there Haiti know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I kno...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond i...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essen...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperit...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If ou...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block t...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The frontier of America is on the Rhine.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Ameri...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this b...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimenta...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Fede...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations wh...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one the...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT War is a contagion.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have...
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is no indispensable man.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush hi...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speec...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperat...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely a...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a poin...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT ...let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear. . .is fear itself. . .nameless,...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk for...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants a...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But a...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Peace, like charity, begins at home.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but a...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate t...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hea...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the to...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recogni...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignor...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants an...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Be sincere, be brief; be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our c...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The re...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American p...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the a...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progr...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hung...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is wh...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousne...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America wa...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move for...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerhe...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the earl...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better wo...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themsel...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 19...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative
effort.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which par...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - name...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations,
on faithful prote...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT the first war of the 21st century.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT a poverty-ridden old age.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We should never forge those that did not return,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT greatly impressed.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business,...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I love it--I just love it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early wor...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the f...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a s...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT