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Own 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.
- 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…
- Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins…
- We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We…
- We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their…
- I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order…
- 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…
- A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other…
- Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right…
- It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to…
- The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and…
- Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors.…
- But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest…
- Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- 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…
- Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice…
- 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…
- 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…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov