FAMOUS AND BEAUTIFUL FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT QUOTES
FAMOUS AND BEAUTIFUL FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT QUOTES
1) ‘’When you come to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.’’
2) ‘’We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.’’
3) ‘’Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own mind.’’
4) ‘’When you see a rattle snake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.’’
5) ‘’Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.’’
6) ‘’No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.’’
7) ‘’If you have to spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.’’
8) ‘’The motto of war is, ‘’let the strong survive; let the weak dies.’’ The motto of peace is ;let the strong help the weak to survive.’’
9) ‘’I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for American people.’’
10) ‘’No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.’’
11) ‘’I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.’’
12) ‘’War is a contagion.’’
13) ‘’In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.’’
14) ‘’A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backward.’’
15) ‘’Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.’’
16) ‘’Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American Principle.’’
17) ‘’Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.’’
18) ‘’If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.’’
19) ‘’I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their government.’’
20) ‘’We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.’’
21) ‘’But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.’’
22) ‘’No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.’’
23) ‘’Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.’’
24) ‘’I do not look upon these United Sates as a finished product. We are still in the making.’’
25) ‘’The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.’’
26) ‘’In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up, or else we all go down.’’
27) ‘’Don’t forget what I discovered that over 90% of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present and future wars.’’
28) ‘’We continued to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security Is an ambition to be preferred to appetite for great wealth and great power.’’
29) ‘’Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.’’
30) ‘’In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned way.’’
31) ‘’The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’’
32) ‘’Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative efforts.’’
33) ‘’Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.’’
34) ‘’I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.’’
35) ‘’Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.’’
36) ‘’I am not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.’’
37) ‘’The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.’’
38) ‘’Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.’’
39) ‘’True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of job are the stuff of which dictatorship are made.’’
40) ‘’I think we considered too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.’’
41) ‘’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.’’
42) ‘’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.’’
43) ‘’We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.’’
44) ‘’Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.’’
45) ‘’Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.’’
46) ‘’Confidence, thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.’’
47) ‘’There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.’’
48) ‘’To reach a port, we must sail-sail, not tie at anchor-sail, not drift.’’
49) ‘’If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships-the ability of all peoples, of all kins , to live together, in the same world at peace.’’
50) ‘’Be sincere; be brief; be seated.’’
51) ‘’A convervative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.’’
52) ‘’Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.’’
53) ‘’Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.’’
54) ‘’When you see a rattlesnake posed, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.’’
55) ‘’Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.’’
56) ‘’There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of others generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.’’
57) ‘’I pledge you to, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.’’
58) ‘’The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.’’
59) ‘’The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.’’
60) ‘’There are as many opinions as there are experts.’’
61) ‘’Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.’’
62) ‘’The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.’
63) ‘’Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.’’
64) ‘’The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.’’
65) ‘’We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.’’
66) ‘’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.’’
67) ‘’It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the priviledge of the congress to dispose.’’
68) ‘’There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.’’
69) ‘’Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole world.’’
70) ‘’Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in family, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by Naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.’’
71) ‘’It is fun to be in the same decade with you.’’
72) ‘’I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.’’
73) ‘’If you treat people right they will treat you right, 90% of the time.’’
74) ‘’Are you laboring under the impression that I read there memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.’’
75) ‘’More than an end of war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars-yes,an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of setting the differences between government.’’
76) ‘’This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.’’
77) ‘’I am a Christian and a Democrates, that’s all.’’
78) ‘’The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.’’
79) ‘’Remember always that all of us, and you and I especiaily, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.’’
80) ‘’We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.’’
81) ‘’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 to little.’’
82) ‘’A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forest are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.’’
83) ‘’The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is facism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.’’
84) ‘’Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore is education.’’
85) ‘’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.’’
86) ‘’The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.’’
87) ‘’Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the trill of creative effort.’’
88) ‘’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.’’
89) ”I am firmly of the belief that if we are to arrive at a stable peace it must involve the development of backward countries….I can’t believe that we can fight a war against fascist slavery, and at the same time not work to free people all over the world from a backward colonial policy.”
90) ”I don’t mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman ”
91) ”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.”
92) ”Let not defeatists tell us that it is too late. It will never be earlier. Tomorrow will be later than today.”
93) ”There are as many opinions as there are experts.”
94) ”We must be the great arsenal of democracy.”
95) ”In his struggle for selfish gain, man has often needlessly tipped the scales so that Nature’s balance has been destroyed, and the public welfare has usually been on the short-weighted side.”
96) ”I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
97) ”It isn’t sufficient just to want-you’ve got to ask yourself what you’re going to do to get the things you want.”
98) ”You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.”
99) ”Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and not of it.”
100) ”I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. ”
101) ”A good story is sometimes preferable to an accurate one.”
102) ”In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May he protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.”
103) ”There are very few things we can know beforehand. We will try and if we find we are wrong, we will have to change.”
