Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Page 19

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• I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.289, Best Books on

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• In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Power, Framework

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• We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Fighting, Government, America

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

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• Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Equality, Men, Mind

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• For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Government, Years

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

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• Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.

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  Sacrifice, Long, Humanity

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• I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Simple, Political

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• Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

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  Strong, Men, People

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.364, Best Books on

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• Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, Years

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.663, Best Books on

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• Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, War, People

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• On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Long, Presidential, World

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.277, Best Books on

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• 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

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• I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

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  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.

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  Dream, Fighting, Civilization

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

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• It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.

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  Airplane, Navy, Battle

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• 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

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• The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.

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  Government, People, World

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• All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

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  Years, Improvement, Wealth

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

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• The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

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  Country, Mistake, Needs

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

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  Government, Groups, Body

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

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• I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  President, Purpose, Honest

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• I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Sacrifice, June

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• I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Block, Doubt, Permit

  Letter to Samuel B. Hill (chairman of House Ways and Means Committee), 6 July 1935

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• It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rivers, Memorial, Political

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

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• On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.

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  War, Hands, Order

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