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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
— Eleanor 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
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no effort without error or shortcoming.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth
It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.
— Theodore Roosevelt
To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.
— Theodore Roosevelt
All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed ... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
— Clare Boothe Luce
There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
— Eleanor Roosevelt
After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.
— Theodore Roosevelt
No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man ...
— Theodore Roosevelt
It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.
— Theodore 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
A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.
— Theodore Roosevelt
What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law
— Theodore Roosevelt
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
— Henry Kissinger
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
— Theodore Roosevelt
That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I can never afford to be in arrears with anything that I have to do; I must always be abreast or ahead of my tasks.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.
— Theodore Roosevelt
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt