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Famous Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6
“There are as many opinions as there are experts.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”
“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10
Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944
“To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
“It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.”
“The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2
“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”
“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4