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I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

War is a contagion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have a terrific pain in the back of my head. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The frontier of America is on the Rhine. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive." — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. — Camille Paglia

You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much. — Newt Gingrich

I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini]. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. — Winston S. Churchill

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. — Pete Du Pont

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology. — Robert Kennedy

It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well ... uh ... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Failure is not an American habit. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Forests are the lungs of our land ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake. — Ed Crane

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." — Mike DeWine

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great power involves great responsibility — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
-Roosevelt to Churchill — Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them. — Ken Livingstone

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Above all, try something — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you. — Gore Vidal

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

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. — Jean Craighead George

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that
men have died to win them.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Necessitous men are not free men. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Presidents are selected, not elected. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom of speech ... Freedom of worship ... Freedom from want ... Freedom from fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that? — Richard D. Wolff

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried! — Franklin D. Roosevelt

New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt. — Barack Obama

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to ... American democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The fundamental idea ... is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Organized money hates me
and I welcome their hatred! — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues. — Gaylord Nelson

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Until Henry Ford saw the chance to get free publicity (making Sub-chasers) he thought submarines were something to eat. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania? — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. — Ann Richards

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. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

To reach a port we must set sail — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. — Robert Dallek

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt