Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes page 1
1882-1945, 32nd President of the United States
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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Great power involves great responsibility.
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A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without
ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range and mount the
most powerful guns.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to
walk forward.
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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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The structure of world peace cannot
be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It
must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward
with strong and active faith.
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Confidence...
thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on
unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
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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.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let
the strong help the weak to survive."
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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals, we now know that it is
bad economics.
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When you get to the end of your rope - tie a knot and hang on.
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I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the
wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud.
I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line - the
survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children
starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more
important than fear.
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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, justice, and confidence may prevail in the world.
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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.
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All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense
that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth
for the nation.
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Presidents are selected, not elected.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from
immigrants and revolutionists.
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In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon
four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in
the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -
everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms,
means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for
its inhabitants - everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated
into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a
thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression
against any neighbor - anywhere in the world.
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Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant
enough to be free.
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