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
Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.
Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
The school spirit for our sport is very high, ... They were able to bring it back under control. I am very pleased.
The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize
The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales
On this tenth day in June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.