Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Page 5

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• Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memories, Freedom, War

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sacrifice, Years, Wind

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932, Volume 1”, p.797, Best Books on

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• All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Gun

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• The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats 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

  Jobs, Engineering, Moral Leadership

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• Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Children, Men, People

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• We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Mean, Giving

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Oglethorpe University Commencement Address, May 22, 1932.

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• Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Europe, Air Power, Aviation

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• ...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Marine, United States

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• The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Ocean, Self, Sea

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• No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Kitten, Pearl Harbor Day

  The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

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• The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Caring, Government, Citizens

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• No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Government, Class

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• 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

  Average, Firsts, Prosperity

  Campaign address, Detroit, Mich., 2 Oct. 1932

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• "Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cute, Friends, Sweet

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• I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Doctrine, Politics

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• A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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• Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, School, Eye

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.258, Best Books on

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• Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Buying, Selling, Bigs

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• Tell that to the Marines!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Marine, Marine Corps

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• Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy -
  No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Long, People

  Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, delivered 8 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

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• Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Hate, Hatred, Welcome

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• Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Common Sense, World

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• If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Years, Two, Trying

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• In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracy, Mob Rule, Flags

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936.

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• No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Trying, Rise Above

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