"To some generations much is given. Of other……" — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected."
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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about…
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Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was…
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Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
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In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of…
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best…
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I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while…
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop…
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I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was…
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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept…
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