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
They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from wantà . The fourth is freedom from fear.
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.
The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
Oh Lord, give us faith... Give us faith in each other; faith in our united crusade.
Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society
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...
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women
We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.