Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Art, Past, Land

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.74, Best Books on

• It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Believe, Past, Men

• Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Past, Forget

• I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Past, United States, Constitution

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

• On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Crush, War, Army

• If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Past, Civilization

• It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Past, Long, Long Time

• If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Book, Past

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

• We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Acceptance, Past, Incentives

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