Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

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

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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.

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Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.

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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

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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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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 too little.

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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

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The Truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

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A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

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Great power involves great responsibility.

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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

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War is young men dying and old men talking.

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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

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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.

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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

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

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

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If you treat people right they will treat you right … ninety percent of the time.

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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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