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80 Top Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes On Power, Happiness, Democracy, Success And More
Franklin D. Roosevelt, popularly known as FDR, was a distinguished American political leader and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States. He remained an eminent figure during the mid-20th century. He is best-known to have pulled out the country from the realms of ‘Great Depression’, and made it become an economically powerful country across the globe with restored prosperity. This man of vision led his country successfully in the worst hours of crisis. During his presidency that spanned a little over than a decade, he dominated American’s political scene completely. His dominance was virtually present and greatly felt even after decades. Here is a corpus of popular, motivating and famous quotes and sayings by F D Roosevelt which have been excerpted from his speeches, works, thoughts, public utterances and life. Let us browse through the quotes and thoughts by F D Roosevelt on motivational, end, reach, government, politics, fear, relationship, peace, education, choice, honor, honestly, confidence, life, hope, wisdom, unity, history, war, strive, strength, kindness, competition, strive, progress, abundance, sail, principles, society, sacred etc which are quoted widely.
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
F D Roosevelt
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.
F D Roosevelt
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
F D Roosevelt
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
F D Roosevelt
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
F D Roosevelt
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
F D Roosevelt
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
F D Roosevelt
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
F D Roosevelt
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
F D Roosevelt
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
F D Roosevelt
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.
F D Roosevelt
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
F D Roosevelt
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
F D Roosevelt
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
F D Roosevelt
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
F D Roosevelt
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.
F D Roosevelt
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.
F D Roosevelt
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
F D Roosevelt
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
F D Roosevelt
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
F D Roosevelt
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
F D Roosevelt
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
F D Roosevelt
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.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
F D Roosevelt
I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.
F D Roosevelt
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
F D Roosevelt
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
F D Roosevelt
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
F 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 doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
F D Roosevelt
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
F D Roosevelt
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
F D Roosevelt
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
F D Roosevelt
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
F D Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
F D Roosevelt
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
F D Roosevelt
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
F D Roosevelt
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.
F D Roosevelt
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
F D Roosevelt
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
F D Roosevelt
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
F D Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
F D Roosevelt
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
F D Roosevelt
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.
F D Roosevelt
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
F D Roosevelt
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
F D Roosevelt
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
F D Roosevelt
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
F D Roosevelt
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
F D Roosevelt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
F D Roosevelt
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
F D Roosevelt
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
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.
