Our handicaps exist only in our minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt More Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt More Quotes From Franklin D. Roosevelt It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man. Franklin D. Roosevelt liberty average men In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. Franklin D. Roosevelt political ambition people If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. Roosevelt ninety-nine inspirational people Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races. Franklin D. Roosevelt citizens race men We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. Franklin D. Roosevelt politics power america In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident. Franklin D. Roosevelt republic influence father Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear. Franklin D. Roosevelt freedom-of-speech memorial political I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. Franklin D. Roosevelt judgement judging enemy History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, 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 its government. Franklin D. Roosevelt government strong successful The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt leadership education teacher No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. Franklin D. Roosevelt ruthlessness bombs men Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - Franklin D. Roosevelt winning long people We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days. Franklin D. Roosevelt land wise thinking We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. Franklin D. Roosevelt veterans-day fighting believe Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace. Franklin D. Roosevelt do-the-best results waiting A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives. Franklin D. Roosevelt selfish wise spring Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for. Franklin D. Roosevelt freedom opportunity men Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land. Franklin D. Roosevelt land jobs men Forests are the lungs of our land. Franklin D. Roosevelt earth-day land tree It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved. Franklin D. Roosevelt government purpose rights
