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"41 Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings

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Born: January 30, 1882 Died: April 12, 1945 | President |

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Build Future Youth Always
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Always Belief Better Better Life
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Alien Country Democracy Forget
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Accident Bet Happens Nothing
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I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Bad Bad Luck Bird Consider
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Abundance Add Enough Little
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Ability Civilization Cultivate Human
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Continuing Control Enough Government
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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.

Been Begins Certain Certain Point
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Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Admit Another Fails Frankly
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Achievement Creative Effort Happiness
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Air America Attacked Date
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Lost Rivers Sea Self-Interest
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
Else Everyone Extra Just
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Bring Long Long Time Past
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If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Ninety Ninety Percent People Percent
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

American Cycle Destiny Events
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Forward Going Many One-Way
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
End Hang Knot Reach
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Empty Empty Stomach Failing Full
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Conservative Forward Good How
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Necessarily Are Not Principles
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Fear Itself Only The Only Thing
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Affection Enemy Self-Interest True
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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Ask Get Going Got
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Experts Many Opinions AS
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Fate Men Minds Only
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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

Apart Danger Either Forward
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Ability Ambition Appetite Assert
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

Down Economic Else Go
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One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Along Best Go How
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Beginning Between Brutal Differences
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Cannot Dictatorships Economic Economic Security
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Colleagues Fellow I Can Pick
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Allowing Authority Conflicting Force
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Cruel Does Fiber Free
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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.

Air Destroys Forests Fresh
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Doubts Limit Only Our
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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.

Because Brief Brief Moment Change
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Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Force Impact Never Permanently
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Found Free Men Pursue
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings