Franklin Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

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“I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have no right under any implied power or any court-approved power to enter into a solution of a national economic problem, but that that national economic problem must be decided only by the States? We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead — and find no one there.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is fun to be in the same decade with you.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the Administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

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