Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Page 11

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• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Sweat, Paying Taxes

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.798, Best Books on

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Lying, Government

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• What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Average, Highest, Batting

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leader, Return, Prophet

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sight, Effort, Being Thankful

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something within me rebelled at that word 'foreign'. I say this because when I have been in Canada, I have never heard a Canadian refer to an American as a 'foreigner'. He is just an 'American'. And, in the same way, in the United States, Canadians are not 'foreigners', they are 'Canadians'. That simple little distinction illustrates to me better than anything else the relationship between our two countries.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Grateful, Simple

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• No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Rights, Political

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1940, Volume 9”, p.408, Best Books on

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• It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Giving, Justice, President

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.497, Best Books on

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• Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

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  Teaching, Men, Giving

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Men, Self

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

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• Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Years, Two, Trying

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• The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Religious, Church, Principles

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• There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments and their very foundations are set. The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fight. To save one, we must now make up our minds to save all.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Home, Fighting, Men

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• Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Uprising

  "The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940". Book by Franklin D. Roosevelt, p. 53, 1941.

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• Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, War, Inspirational Life

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• There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Running, Yards, Wide Receiver

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• The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Life, Self Esteem, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Determination, Men, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

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  Home, Rivers, Hudson River

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.198, Best Books on

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• I am particularly interested in the indications that the people seem to understand and approve the necessity of pursuing the course that will prevent a further effort on the part of the German peoples to continue the struggle for world domination, even though they are thoroughly beaten in this war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Struggle, People

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• I sometimes 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

  Military, Good Luck, Army

  "Roosevelt and Howe" y Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., (p. 153), 1962.

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• Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Relief, Fiber

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• Failure is not an American habit.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Habit

  Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

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• We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.

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  Country, Eye, Men

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• The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Needs, Faces, Serious

  Campaign address, Syracuse, N.Y., 29 Sept. 1936

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