Franklin Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

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“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“On the farms, in the large metropolitan areas, in the smaller cities and in the villages, millions of our citizens cherish the hope that their old standards of living and of thought have not gone forever. Those millions cannot and shall not hope in vain. I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”
– 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 doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Peace, like charity, begins at home.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

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