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History Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.
- If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.
- 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…
- Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at…
- The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
- 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…
- The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared…
- Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands…
- 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…
- First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror…
- We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
- We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
- Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our…
- Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough