Inspiring Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt - Page 2

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"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment"

"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"

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education"

"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings"

"I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all"

"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time"

"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come"

"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union"

"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down"

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today"

"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea"

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

"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country"

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force"

"Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged"

"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along"

"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight"

"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people"

"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan"

"Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion"

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