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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.


Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a wo...
MARTIN O'MALLEY In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jeffer...
EDMUND MORGAN FDR’s struggle with illness and subsequent metal-filled life are remarkably similar to the story o...
DANIEL O'BRIEN We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on dow...
JAMES ROOSEVELT The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-gene...
CHRISTINE PELOSI I think he is one of the two greatest presidents of the 20th century, along with Franklin Delano Roo...
NEWT GINGRICH I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic dea...
RAHM EMANUEL As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three br...
DAN PFEIFFER We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS What you call dirty and muddy place, is what a pig calls his palace
SOTONYE ANGA Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll!
MARCUS MAYO Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train,
BOB EDWARDS Aliens have been here for millennium.
But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott...
ROBERT DALLEK It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Ro...
PETER JENNINGS Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
GAYLORD NELSON Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods h...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close tie...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM We fight not for glory nor for wealth nor honours; but only and alone we fight for freedom, which no...
BERNARD DE LINTON Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's na...
ALLEN WEINSTEIN An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachu...
MIKE WALLACE We do not ask for the lives we are given but each of us has the right to defend that life, I have fo...
FRANKENSTEIN In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alon...
MICHAEL M. HONDA A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideolog...
AMIT REDDY You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We are at a point in our nation's history when the right leadership is needed more than ever. Hi...
MARCIA FUDGE 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON I'm glad we got this far because we were the underdogs the whole way. We had to work for everything ...
LAECHIA CONLEY I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked f...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of Ameri...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON 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 We become poor,not necessarily because we lack life goodies,but because by withholding life goodies ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Any religion not hinged on communal love and forgiveness is not worth mankind's time and devotion of...
JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH 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 America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do s...
PETER T. KING Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imaginat...
L. FRANK BAUM We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all som...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all s...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this cou...
DENNIS KUCINICH Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
PETE DU PONT I did not defend myself. I say a life for a life.
RUTH ELLIS We are all disciples of the light.
STEVEN MAGEE Over the course of the past several years, of waging successive, successful proof-of-principle fight...
CODY JONES As a woman, I just don't think it's safe for me to walk Franklin Street alone.
ANN NELSON In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America'...
ROBERT DALLEK We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God
SOTONYE ANGA I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping the...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE We all do not know what actually we look for in life,but we all find something missing in life.
ANUJ SOMANY We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified ...
G. K. CHESTERTON We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified ...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 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 We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.
MOLLY IVINS War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love t...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Life is all we have, the grace of service to mankind.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, H...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-...
RUSSELL BAKER We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Ro...
JEFF GREENFIELD The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders...
JEFFREY SACHS For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust...
STEPHEN A. SCHWARZMAN The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN We are tremendously grateful to Nissan North America not only for this donation, but for all they ha...
CHRIS CLARKE It is personal connections and relationships. And if you look back to a Franklin Roosevelt, a John K...
DAVID GARROW You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.
ELMER DAVIS It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.
KRISTEN LAMB Persistence can look a lot like stupid.
KRISTEN LAMB For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as ...
KIT BOND When President Roosevelt signed Social Security into law in 1935, 65 percent of African Americans na...
TA-NEHISI COATES Have & Have Not
SAVAN SOLANKI There are many life journeys we all must take but we do not need to walk any of these bright or dark...
GRANT FAIRLEY Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we ...
DICK MORRIS We are not just going to sit back and let America to go down this ramp of immorality alone, ... We c...
HARRY JACKSON The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we a...
GAYLORD NELSON We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
EUGENE CERNAN We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
GENE CERNAN No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about...
DONNA BRAZILE Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to thos...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY The Israelis will always look out for the interest of the Jews and will not look at you with respect...
IBRAHIM SARSUR We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progres...
SHIGERU YOSHIDA We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
MIKE NORTON

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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...
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