Franklin Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

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Here is a collection of Franklin Roosevelt quotes and sayings. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States.

“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.”
– Franklin 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.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse. ”
– 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

“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Be sincere, be brief; be seated.”
– Franklin 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.”
– Franklin 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.”
– Franklin 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.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else.”
– Franklin 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.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.”
– Franklin 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.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“He has a power to strike at error and wrongdoing that makes his adversaries quail before him. He has a personality that carries to every hearer not only the sincerity but the righteousness of his ways. He is the ‘Happy Warrior’ of the political battlefield—Alfred E. Smith. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, 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 its government. ”
– Franklin 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.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I can’t talk about my opponent the way I would like to sometimes, because I try to think that I am a Christian.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

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