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's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.
Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.
I've fired my last shot. I think I should have another round in my belt.
Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.
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...
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.
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