Franklin Roosevelt quotes Born: 01/30/1882 Died: 04/12/1945 Country: usa

• There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. (Franklin Roosevelt)
• The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred... (Franklin Roosevelt) [value/love/willpower/value]
• We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind. (Franklin Roosevelt) [life/america/mankind]
• Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. (Franklin Roosevelt)
• The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. (Franklin Roosevelt) [civilization & progress/provide]
• We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want. (Franklin Roosevelt)
• No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. (Franklin Roosevelt) [democracy/recognition]
• There is nothing to fear but fear itself. (Franklin Roosevelt) [fear/fear]
• We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. (Franklin Roosevelt) [life]
• The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. (Franklin Roosevelt) [nation]
• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. (Franklin Roosevelt) [more/start/war/start]
• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. (Franklin Roosevelt)
• No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. (Franklin Roosevelt) [business/right]
• The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group. (Franklin Roosevelt) [democracy/people/growth/power]
• 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. (Franklin Roosevelt) [take/method]
• An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod. (Franklin Roosevelt) [give/direction/more]
• The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. (Franklin Roosevelt) [government]
• 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. (Franklin Roosevelt) [men/women/nature/human]
• A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk. (Franklin Roosevelt)
• If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. (Franklin Roosevelt)
• We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. (Franklin Roosevelt) [life]
• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. (Franklin Roosevelt)
• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. (Franklin Roosevelt) [happiness/joy]
• The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. (Franklin Roosevelt) [willpower/faith]
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. (Franklin Roosevelt) [thing/fear/fear]
• 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 too little. (Franklin Roosevelt) [civilization & progress/more/provide]
• It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. (Franklin Roosevelt) [president]
• 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. (Franklin Roosevelt) [security/people]
• I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. (Franklin Roosevelt) [/time]
• We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear. (Franklin Roosevelt) [look/human/speech/god]
• Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. (Franklin Roosevelt) [men]

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