Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Page 16

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• 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

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• All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Depression, Safe, Agents

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• You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, People, Support

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• Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Children, Debt, Pay

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.351, Best Books on

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• Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Government, Partnership

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• True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Men, Rising

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• A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Pursuit Of Happiness, Men

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

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• There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Beauty, Believe, Good Day

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• We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Presidential, Needs, Want

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• That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Science, Thinking, Way

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• Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cake, Secret, Old Woman

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• Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Philosophy, Ideas, People

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• I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Thinking, Should Have

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• I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Believe, Government

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• Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, Moving, Active

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.13, Best Books on

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• Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Reform, World, Lord

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.561, Best Books on

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• Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Elephants, States

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• 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

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• The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Civilization, May, Temples

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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• I have seen war ... I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Hate, War, I Hate

  Speech, Chautauqua, N.Y., 14 Aug. 1936

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• There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  America, Groups, Public Opinion

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.254, Best Books on

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• There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Bridges, People, Doubt

  "Kurilpa Bridge". Book by Haig Beck, p. 72, 2012.

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• A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Selfish, War, Ill Will

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.9, Best Books on

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• Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  President, Today, Becoming

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• A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Crush, Art, Individuality

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.336, Best Books on

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