All Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
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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.
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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 little.
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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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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
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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.
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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