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Business Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

22 Business quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt’s twenty‑two statements weave together his command of public policy and his thoughts on commerce. The selection offers a blend of optimism, practical advice, and historical context that still feels relevant to today’s market challenges.

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I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

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A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

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Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

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A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that…

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Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution…

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Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to…

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Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs,…

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I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the…

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We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war…

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No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

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“No realistic American can expect from a dictator's peace international generosity, or return of true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of…

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“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war…

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The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise…

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No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this…

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If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference…

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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…

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In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me…

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“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will…

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“Let us be clear at the outset that the liberty of individuals to carry on their business should not be abrogated unless…

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The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that…

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Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

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In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

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Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

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'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live…

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I have seen war ... I hate war.

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I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men…

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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on…

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They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes…

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On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia...

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The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend.

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War is a contagion.

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Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

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Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

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The frontier of America is on the Rhine.

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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing…

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