Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes - page 3

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. View quote
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As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed. View quote
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I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill) View quote
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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 neighbor. View quote
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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. View quote
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We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war. View quote
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Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. View quote
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The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson - and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States - only on a far bigger and broader basis. View quote
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. View quote
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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future. View quote
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. View quote
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. View quote
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred. View quote
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. View quote
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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head. View quote
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. View quote
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There are as many opinions as there are experts. View quote
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. View quote
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. View quote
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Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else. View quote
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself. View quote
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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 doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along. View quote
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