Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember, Play, Else

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men, Truth, Free

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Great, Power, Him

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sincere, Brief, Seated

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political, Down, Else

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Human, Destiny, Generation

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religion, Another, Against

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Else, Nation, Against

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fun, Same, Decade

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rules, Principles, Sacred

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Reach, Anchor, Sail

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love, Good, Fight

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nature, Human, Made

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Try, Another, Means

There are as many opinions as there are experts.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Opinions, Experts

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government, Help, General

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Read, Impression, Yours

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

Country, Themselves, Inclined

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

President, Congress, Duty

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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Deep, Feeling, Cannot

War is a contagion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Time, Past, Long

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

Education, Government, Knowledge

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Walking, Backwards

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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Change, Great, Human

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: January 30, 1882

Died: April 12, 1945

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