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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About Change

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About History

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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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

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Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

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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.

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More Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

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

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

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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

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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.

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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

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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.

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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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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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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

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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.

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

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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

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

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

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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

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

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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

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

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

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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.

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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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

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

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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 virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

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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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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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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.

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

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Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

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There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

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Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.

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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.

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

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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

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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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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.

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