Quotes by
Franklin Roosevelt |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945 , American President [1936-1945]
32nd president of the United States (1933–45). The only president elected to the office four times, Roosevelt led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II. In so doing, he greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. more info:
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Quotations
| • | Presidents are selected, not elected. 16 |
| • | Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. 16 |
| • | In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. 10 |
| • | Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. 10 |
| • | I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. 7 |
| • | Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself. 7 |
| • | I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. 6 |
| • | He's a son-of-a-bitch, but he’s our son-of-a-bitch. (on Anastasio Somoza García, president of Nicaragua) 6 |
| • | A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. 5 |
| • | 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. 5 |
| • | I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. (speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president, 1932) 5 |
| • | We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. 5 |
| • | Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred! 5 |
| • | The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. 4 |
| • | Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. 4 |
| • | You are only an extra in everyone else's play. 4 |
| • | We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. 3 |
| • | If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time. 3 |
| • | There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. 3 |
| • | In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. 3 |
| • | War is young men dying and old men talking. 3 |
| • | People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about. 3 |
| • | It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge. 3 |
| • | Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. 2 |
| • | Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated. (advice to his son James on how to make a public speech) 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
| • | If I prove a bad president, I will also likely to prove the last president. 2 |
| • | 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. 2 |
| • | What America needs now is a drink. 2 |
Funny Quotes
| • | I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. 7 |
