Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes - page 6

Yes, we are on our way back - not just by pure chance, my friends, not just by a turn of the wheel, of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we are planning it that way. Don't let anybody tell you differently. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster. View quote
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The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. View quote
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Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt. View quote
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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear. View quote
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. View quote
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Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred! View quote
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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. View quote
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Peace, like charity, begins at home. View quote
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The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. View quote
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If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. View quote
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It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved. View quote
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. View quote
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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. View quote
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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. View quote
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Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God. View quote
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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. View quote
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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. View quote
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More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. View quote
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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. View quote
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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. View quote
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And so today, in this year of war, 1945, we have learned lessons - at a fearful cost - and we shall profit by them. View quote
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There are men who doubt this. There are men who believe that democracy, as a form of Government and a frame of life, is limited or measured by a kind of mystical and artificial fate - that, for some unexplained reason, tyranny and slavery have become the surging wave of the future - and that freedom is an ebbing tide. But we Americans know that this is not true. View quote
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