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
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Our handicaps exist only in our minds.
A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
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