Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes - Page 6

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• In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracy, Mob Rule, Flags

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936.

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• They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

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  Fighting, Sacrifice, Lust

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

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• Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

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  Buying, Selling, Bigs

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• Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

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  Taxation, Taxes Funny, Pay

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• The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

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  Leadership, Education, Teacher

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.470, Best Books on

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• The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams.

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  Country, Mean, Water

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

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  Government, Trying, Rise Above

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• If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

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  Eye, Fire, History

  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

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• There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

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  Love, Fighting, Goal

  Interview, N.Y. Times, 22 Jan. 1911

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• No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

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  Men, Kitten, Pearl Harbor Day

  The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

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• Those of you who have been there [Haiti] know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground.... It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you haven't been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death "Calais" would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that "Haiti" is going to be written on my heart.

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  Beautiful, Country, Queens

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

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  Lying, Dark, Destiny

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

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  Love, Self, Enemy

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• Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.

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  Men, Race, Citizens

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• Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

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  Teamwork, Competition, Collaboration

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• We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

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  Veterans Day, Believe, Fighting

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• Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

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  Enterprise, Free Enterprise, Private Enterprise

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• We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.

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  Wise, Thinking, Land

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• I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

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  Memorable, Lakes, Land

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• The only thing we have to fear is a giant wheelchair-crushing squid. Well... uh... actually, I guess that's the only thing I have to fear.

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  Crush, Squids, Giants

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• If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

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  Years, Two, Trying

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• A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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  Backwards, Walking Backwards, Walking

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

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• People die, but books never die.

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  Book, People, Censorship

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

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  War, Race, Justice

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1943, Volume 12”, p.74, Best Books on

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• No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Bombs, Ruthlessness

  The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

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