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"It is fun being in the same decade with you." FDR Quotes
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the U.S. He was the only president to serve more than two terms (he served four from 1933-45). These are some of his famous quotes.
| | It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. |
| | A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. |
| | Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. |
| | Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. |
| | Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. |
| | I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. |
| | I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. |
| | I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. |
| | I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. |
| | If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. |
| | In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. |
| | In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. |
| | It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. |
| | 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. |
| | Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. |
| | The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. |
| | This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. |
| | The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. |
| | The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. |
| | Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free. |
| | No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. |
| | We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization. |
| | Be sincere, be brief, be seated. |
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