Franklin Roosevelt Quotes And Sayings

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“The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. 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. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The frontier of America is on the Rhine. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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 the government.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That’s the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little… I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clothed, ill-nourished.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred…”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There are as many opinions as there are experts.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There is no indispensable man.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people. ”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

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