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Franklin D. Roosevelt was an American statesman and the 32nd President of the United States. As a leader during the Great Depression and World War II, he implemented significant social and economic reforms. He played a key role in shaping modern America and remains one of its most influential presidents. Here are 366 of his quotes:

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing. View quote
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In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and to perpetuate the integrity of democracy. View quote
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Congress passed a Fair Labor Standards Act, commonly called the Wages and Hours Bill. That Act. View quote
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To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along. View quote
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The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief. View quote
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Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "malice domestic and fierce foreign war." View quote
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We have undertaken a new order of things; yet we progress to it under the framework and in the spirit and intent of the American Constitution. View quote
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Government cannot take a holiday of a year, a month, or even a day just because a few people are tired or frightened by the inescapable pace of this modern world in which we live. View quote
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The task of Government is that of application and encouragement. A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives. View quote
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The task on our part is twofold: First, as simple patriotism requires, to separate the false from the real issues; and, secondly, with facts and without rancor, to clarify the real problems for the American public. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Different from a great part of the world, we in America persist in our belief in individual enterprise and in the profit motive; but we realize we must continually seek improved practices to insure the continuance of reasonable profits, together with scientific progress, individual initiative, opportunities for the little fellow, fair prices, decent wages and continuing employment. View quote
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Two Chinese coolies were arguing heatedly in the midst of a crowd. A stranger expressed surprise that no blows were being struck. His Chinese friend replied: "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." View quote
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I cannot tell you when or where the United Nations are going to strike next in Europe. But we are going to strike - and strike hard. View quote
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Our revenue laws have operated in many ways to the unfair advantage of the few, and they have done little to prevent an unjust concentration of wealth and economic power. View quote
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If we lose that sacred fire - if we let it be smothered with doubt and fear - then we shall reject the destiny which Washington strove so valiantly and so triumphantly to establish. View quote
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At home we have preached, and will continue to preach, the gospel of the good neighbor. I hope from the bottom of my heart that as the years go on, in every continent and in every clime, Nation will follow Nation in proving by deed as well as by word their adherence to the ideal of the Americas - I am a good neighbor. View quote
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Lincoln was commander-in-chief in this old battle; he wanted above all things to be commander-in-chief of the new peace. He understood that battle there must be; that when a challenge to constituted government is thrown down, the people must in self-defense take it up; that the fight must be fought through to a decision so clear that it is accepted as being beyond recall. View quote
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This country seeks no conquest. We have no imperial designs. From day to day and year to year, we are establishing a more perfect assurance of peace with our neighbors. View quote
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I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. View quote
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Wealth in the modern world does not come merely from individual effort; it results from a combination of individual effort and of the manifold uses to which the community puts that effort. The individual does not create the product of his industry with his own hands; he utilizes the many processes and forces of mass production to meet the demands of a national and international market. Therefore, in spite of the great importance in our national life of the efforts and ingenuity of unusual individuals, the people in the mass have inevitably helped to make large fortunes possible. Without mass cooperation great accumulations of wealth would be impossible save by unhealthy speculation. As Andrew Carnegie put it, "Where wealth accrues honorably, the people are always silent partners." (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
A statesman deals with concrete difficulties - with things which must be done from day to day. Not often can he frame conscious patterns for the far off future. View quote
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Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. View quote
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I wish I could keep war from all Nations; but that is beyond my power. I can at least make certain that no act of the United States helps to produce or to promote war. View quote
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In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. View quote
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Occupation: American President
Born: January 30, 1882
Died: April 12, 1945
Quotes count: 366
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