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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.

“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government

All Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religion

“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

“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.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

History

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Faith

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government

“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.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Best

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Work

“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.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government

“War is a contagion.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

War

“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”

— 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

“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

“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Time

“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good

“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nature

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good

“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

“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government

“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.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom

“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