45 quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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“We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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

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

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

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

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“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

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

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

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

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

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“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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

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“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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“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

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“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

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

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

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“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

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“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

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“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“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

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

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