Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

Franklin D. Roosevelt (78)

Birth:	30th January, 1882
Death:	12th April, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician, President, Writer

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• Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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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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• Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Achievement, Effort, Money

  Tags in Creativity

• 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.

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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  Tags in Early, Think, Enough, Much, Consider

• I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

  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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• It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent labor unions.

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• If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Advertising, Travel, Choice

• Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Life

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• If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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• I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Topics in Management

  Tags in Neither, Immaturity, Cynical, Nor, Am, Political, Less, Bitter, Thinking

• 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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  Tags in Precisely, Group, Constitute, Concerned, Government, Prescribe, Body

• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.

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  Tags in Security, Freedom

• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

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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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  Tags in Creating, Importation, Peoples, Treasure, Land, Present

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

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• No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

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  Tags in Government, Class, Consciousness, General, Insist, Destinies, Ahead, Help