Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Page 9

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• I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracy, Library, Conviction

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• In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

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  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.358, Best Books on

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• Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the Administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cutting, Government, Agreement

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign address to the Republican-for-Roosevelt League in New York City (November 3, 1932), as quoted in "The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932" (p. 857), 1938.

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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.

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  Art, Past, Land

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.74, Best Books on

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• Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!

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  Believe, Home, Heart

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, New York, September 29, 1936.

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• We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

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  War, Struggle, Class

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.568, Best Books on

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• Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Talent

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• A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives.

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  Wise, Spring, Selfish

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at San Diego Exposition in San Diego, California, October 2, 1935.

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• It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

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  Concentration Of Wealth, Political, Democracy

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• The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

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  Opportunity, Government, Average

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

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• This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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  Firsts, Belief, Endure

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

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  Independent, Concentration Of Wealth, People

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• In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

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  Father, Republic, Influence

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.419, Best Books on

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• Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have no right under any implied power or any court-approved power to enter into a solution of a national economic problem, but that that national economic problem must be decided only by the States?... We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce.

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  Country, Horse, Government

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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.

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  Business, Failure, Action

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• It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

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  Motivational, Commitment, Want

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• 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.

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  Destiny, Events, This Generation

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

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  Relationship, Future, Youth

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• Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

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  Men, Freedom Of Speech, Use

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• We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.

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  Book, Fighting, Men

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

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  Men, Pyramids, Magic

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

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• The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Crush, Squids, Giants

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• A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

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  Men, Hands, Use

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.556, Best Books on

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• Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

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  Unions, Employers, Employee

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.212, Best Books on

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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.

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  Religious, Church, Principles

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