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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source/Notes: Roosevelt and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1928-1945 (1968 edition), Boston : Little, Brown

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source/Notes: Acceptance Speech, Chicago, July 2, 1932

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source/Notes: First Inaugural Address (4 March 1933)

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source/Notes: The public papers and addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt: with a special introduction and explanatory notes by President Roosevelt (1941), p. 538, "A Message on Education for American Education Week, September 27 1938"

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source/Notes: The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1938 edition)

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source/Notes: As FDR said: a treasury of his speeches, conversations and writings (1950 edition)

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