Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Famous Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Born: 1882-01-30
Died: 1945-04-12
Franklin D. Roosevelt Biography
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
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As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
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Be sincere be brief be seated.
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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.
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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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.
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
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If you treat people right they will treat you right -- ninty percent of the time.
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved.
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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.
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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
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N.B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
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The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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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.
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The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
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There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
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Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
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