Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future."
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"We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
Franklin D. Roosevelt Great Speeches
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"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."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"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
"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
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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