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Human Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of…
- Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new…
- No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the…
- This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of…
- The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and…
- We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time.…
- Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another…
- You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.
- 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.…
- 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…
- The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
- Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is…
- If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together,…
- Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be…
- But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made…
- It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
- There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has…
- Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory…
- There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It…
- Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.
- 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…
- We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
- We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expressioneverywhere in the world. The second…
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