Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  President, Privilege, Congress

• The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Caring, Government, Citizens

• The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Believe, Men

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.29, Best Books on

• I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Fighting, Answers

• The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rights, Government, Groups

  Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

• One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Hands, Community, Society

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