"All work undertaken should be useful - not……" — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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383 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt has 383 quotes on this site.
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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no…
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My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant…
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The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men…
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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
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For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs…
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in…
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be…
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
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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…
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than…
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