Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Equality, Disability

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.201, Best Books on

• The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Government, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

• Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Opportunity, Men

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

• We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Opportunity, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Spring, Selfish

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at San Diego Exposition in San Diego, California, October 2, 1935.

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