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The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.


Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT greatly impressed.
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 We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business,...
FRANKLIN 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 ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I love it--I just love it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early wor...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the f...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a s...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT