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 a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.
The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.
The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
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