Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics. - Franklin D Roosevelt

We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it. - Franklin D Roosevelt

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic. - Franklin D Roosevelt

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. - Franklin D Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. - Franklin D Roosevelt

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Peace, like charity, begins at home. - Franklin D Roosevelt

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. - Franklin D Roosevelt

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