Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party after 1932 as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. His program for relief, recovery and reform, known as the New Deal, involved...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth30 January 1882
CityHyde Park, NY
CountryUnited States of America
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
The real safeguard of democracy is education.
To reach a port we must set sail
The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...
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.
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.
It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.