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Franklin Roosevelt

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What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
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Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hung...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is wh...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousne...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America wa...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move for...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerhe...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the earl...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better wo...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themsel...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 19...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which par...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - name...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful prote...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
the first war of the 21st century.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
a poverty-ridden old age.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We should never forge those that did not return,
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greatly impressed.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT