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Franklin D. Roosevelt [1882-1945] American

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President, 32nd U.S. President

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 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.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.	Motivational	98
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.	Happiness, Success	101
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.	Government, Power	102
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.	Education	103
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.	Fear	105
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.		106
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.	History	107
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.		108
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.	Intelligence	109
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.		110
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.	Freedom, Independence	111
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.	Hope, Life	112
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.		113
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. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.	God, War	114
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.	Wisdom	115
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.	Best	116
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.	Strength	117
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.		118
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.		119
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.		120
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.	Religion	121
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.	Society	122
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.	Chance, Good	123
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.	Good, Politics	124
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.		125
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.		126
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.	Men	201
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.		202
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.		203
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.	Peace, Relationship, Science	204
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.		205
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.		206
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.	History	207
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.		208
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.	Faith, Strength	209
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.	Work	210
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.		211
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.		212
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.	Government	213
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.	Future, Government, Men	214
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.		215
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.		216
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.	Politics	217
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.	Change, Space	218
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.		219
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.		220
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.		221
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.		222
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.	Business	223
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.		224
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.		225
I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.		226
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.		301
There are as many opinions as there are experts.		302
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.		303
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.		304
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.		305
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.		306
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.		307
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.		308
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.		309
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.		310
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.		311
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.		312
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.		313
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.		314
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.		315
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 goverment.	Freedom	316
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.		317
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.	Men	318
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.	War	319
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.		320
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.	Humor	321
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.		322
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.		323
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.		324
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.	Knowledge	325
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.		326
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.		401
War is a contagion.		402

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