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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with F >> Quotes By Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Quote #1: | "Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society." |
| Quote #2: | "Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him." |
| Quote #3: | "I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average." |
| Quote #4: | "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." |
| Quote #5: | "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." |
| Quote #6: | "Wise and prudent men -- intelligent conservatives -- have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing times." |
| Quote #7: | "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." |
| Quote #8: | "It is fun to be in the same decade with you." |
| Quote #9: | "Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." |
| Quote #10: | "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment." |
| Quote #11: | "The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." |
| Quote #12: | "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality." |
| Quote #13: | "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." |
| Quote #14: | "No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living." |
| Quote #15: | "We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees." |
| Quote #16: | "More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars." |
| Quote #17: | "Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much." |
| Quote #18: | "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." |
| Quote #19: | "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." |
| Quote #20: | "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind." |
| Quote #21: | "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." |
| Quote #22: | "Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living." |
| Quote #23: | "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster." |
| Quote #24: | "Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." |
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