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
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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.
It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Calm seas never made a good sailor
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"
All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River