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
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
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.
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
when only a president could have that kind of accommodation.
We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.