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Only Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
- Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to…
- Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.
- On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize…
- The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever…
- All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the…
- Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but…
- 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…
- Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.
- 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…
- Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay…
- Is the United States going to decide, are the people of this country going to decide that their Federal Government shall in the future have…
- Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this…
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- 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…
- Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
- The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
- Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment 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 have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no…
- We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed…
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- The only thing to fear is, fear itself.
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