Franklin D. Roosevelt quote: "They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people."

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, i...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general ...
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The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an eng...
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We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religionsbound together by a single unity, t...
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.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

It is said that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantryhe staked too muc...
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On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its ne...
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Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to...
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Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants an...
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Those of you who have been there Haiti know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. ...
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Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I kno...
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If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond i...
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Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justic...
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History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of w...
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In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essen...
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If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in o...
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Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.
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The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperit...
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Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If ou...
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I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block t...
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree...
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I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in...
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The frontier of America is on the Rhine.
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In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American ...
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We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Ameri...
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And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this b...
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimenta...
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Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Fede...
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations wh...
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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.
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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one the...
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
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War is a contagion.
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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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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America wa...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

There is no indispensable man.
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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.
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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.
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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live...
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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speec...
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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
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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.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But a...
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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.
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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.
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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social ...
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with ...
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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.
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

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.
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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.
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The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the...
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward...
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our c...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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.
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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...
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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.
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Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 19...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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the first war of the 21st century.
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a poverty-ridden old age.
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We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude...
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We should never forge those that did not return,
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greatly impressed.
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The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its...
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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.
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If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...
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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l...
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We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base...
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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,...
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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
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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...
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There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun...
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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

They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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