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
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
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.