Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength. Franklin D. Roosevelt More Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt More Quotes From Franklin D. Roosevelt You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life. Franklin D. Roosevelt radicalism everyday government Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me. Franklin D. Roosevelt reform lord world 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 groups government body To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America. Franklin D. Roosevelt individual-effort self civilization It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Franklin D. Roosevelt decades fun To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens. Franklin D. Roosevelt adequate majority citizens The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. Franklin D. Roosevelt core institutions defense Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men. Franklin D. Roosevelt destiny fellow-man men The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation . Franklin D. Roosevelt mistake country needs All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation. Franklin D. Roosevelt wealth improvement years I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt sacrifice june love Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. Franklin D. Roosevelt lifts impression i-can I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. Franklin D. Roosevelt hate mother children The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system. Franklin D. Roosevelt support intelligent use Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people. Franklin D. Roosevelt income taxation people Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy. Franklin D. Roosevelt debt pay children We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war. Franklin D. Roosevelt desire war long Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so Franklin D. Roosevelt war country people The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson - and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States - only on a far bigger and broader basis. Franklin D. Roosevelt fighting real country You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it. Franklin D. Roosevelt support government people
