American tradition Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt Download Open image “Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare American tradition Discipline Essence Helping Identity Self Self control Self help Tradition
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets. — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great. — David Platt Copy Share Image
American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative –… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
“In the majority of the world’s cultures, including that of the United States, the majority of people endorse giving as their single most important… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“It is fairly commonplace now to admit that our American culture is centered around the self. We believe in the supremacy of self-interest to… — Gale Heide Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden. — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Is the American tradition of self-reliance disappearing? That's a painful question for conservatives to ponder. After all, we're dedicated to reducing the role of… — Edwin Feulner Copy Share Image
The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord. — Robert F. Williams Copy Share Image
Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve the derogatory comments that are often made about them by the left. When one gets down to it ultimately, my anarcho-communism stems from a commitment to true individuality. My attempt to recover the power and the right of… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center, this place of worship, is just as welcome as could be a similar edifice of any other religion. Indeed, America would fight with her whole strength for your right to have here your own church and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share
I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which is an… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least can be… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
