67 result(s) for Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes.
"A date which will live in infamy."
"We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people."
"I'll give you a definite perhaps."
"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars."
"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up or else we all go down."
"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."
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"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic."
"I'm a juggler; and I never let my right hand know what my left hand does. What money have you got?"
"I am not willing that the result of the war should be more tragedy to humanity."
"We are always in the midst of eternity. Now is all we have."
"My father ... was not a failure. It is not a disgrace to fail. What is a disgrace is not to make the effort."
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future."
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us."
"Confidence thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
"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."
"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."
"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out."
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"You can never tell what type of impact you may have on another's life by your actions or lack of action. Please consider this in your daily adventures."
"The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on."
"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world."
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
"The only investment with a guaranteed return is an investment in yourself."
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."
"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important."
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism."
"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."
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"Intelligence has nothing to do with politics."
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
"The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history . . . It was written in Magna Carta."
"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded..."
"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
"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."
"Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection."
"Let us move on and up. Life is not meant to be easy, but take heart: we can make it good."
"Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, liberty, and human rights may be established among all peoples and nations."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
"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 too little."
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself."
"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."
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
"I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust."
"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."
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
"The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate."
"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
"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 government."
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy."
"The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber."
"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of every person to worship God in their own way, freedom from want, and freedom from fear."
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