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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

By Presidential - Posted on 28 February 2009

  • “As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.”
  • “Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”
  • “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
  • “I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
  • “If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.”
  • “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.”
  • “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”
  • “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 too little.”
  • “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
  • “We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”
  • “First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
  • “It is fun to be in the same decade with you.”
  • “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
  • “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
  • “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
  • “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.”
  • “Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
  • “The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.”
  • “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”

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