Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
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“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
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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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“The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.”
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“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
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“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
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“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
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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.”
Category: history
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“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
Category: politics
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“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
Category: war
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“The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.”
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“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
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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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“Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.”
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“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
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“Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”
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“Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.”
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“Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.”
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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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“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”
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