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
We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.
I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.
A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Presidents are selected, not elected.
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...