Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Page 9

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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.

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  Talent

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• The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.

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  Party, Believe, Men

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.29, Best Books on

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

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  Attitude, School, Presidential

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

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  Gun

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

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  Defense, Institutions, Core

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Crush, Squids, Giants

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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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• We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.

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  Selfish, Criticism, Grind

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “Fireside chats”, Penguin Group USA

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• A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

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  Men, Speech, Indispensable

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.860, Best Books on

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