Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quotations
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“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.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“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.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“We continue 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 the appetite for great wealth and great power.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“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.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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