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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) was the 32nd President of the United States, serving an unprecedented four terms from 1933 to 1945. He led the nation through the Great Depression with his New Deal programs and through most of World War II. His leadership during two of America's greatest crises made him one of the most consequential presidents in history.

“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Faith

All Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education

“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religion

“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Time

“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

Strength

“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hope

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness

“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

Art

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics

“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.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

History

“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Faith

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fear

“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Future

“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

Education

“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

Future

“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.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace

“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government

“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good

“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Work

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men

“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

Change