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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

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“If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we can not merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
Tagged: Presidential Inaugural, Presidential Speech, Franklin Roosevelt
“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.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
Tagged: Presidential Inaugural, Presidential Speech, Franklin Roosevelt
“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.

These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
Tagged: Presidential Inaugural, Presidential Speech, Franklin Roosevelt
“Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
Tagged: Presidential Inaugural, Presidential Speech, Franklin Roosevelt
“In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
Tagged: Presidential Inaugural, Presidential Speech, Franklin Roosevelt
“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address
Tagged: Presidential Inaugural, Presidential Speech, Franklin Roosevelt
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden(October 31, 1936)
Tagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy
“For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair! Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that Government is best which is most indifferent.

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden(October 31, 1936)
Tagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy
“They stood with us then because in 1932 they still believed. They stand with us today because in 1936 they know. And with them stand millions of new recruits who have come to know.

Their hopes have become our record.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden(October 31, 1936)
Tagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy
“Here and now I want to make myself clear about those who disparage their fellow citizens on the relief rolls. They say that those on relief are not merely jobless — that they are worthless.

Their solution for the relief problem is to end relief — to purge the rolls by starvation. To use the language of the stock broker, our needy unemployed would be cared for when, as, and if some fairy godmother should happen on the scene.

You and I will continue to refuse to accept that estimate of our unemployed fellow Americans. Your Government is still on the same side of the street with the Good Samaritan and not with those who pass by on the other side.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden(October 31, 1936)
Tagged: FDR, The New Deal, The Great Depression, Economy
“On this idea, the first part of the Act proposes to our industry a great spontaneous cooperation to put millions of men back in their regular jobs this summer. The idea is simply for employers to hire more men to do the existing work by reducing the work-hours of each man's week and at the same time paying a living wage for the shorter week.

No employer and no group of less than all employers in a single trade could do this alone and continue to live in business competition. But if all employers in each trade now band themselves faithfully in these modern guilds--without exception-and agree to act together and at once, none will be hurt and millions of workers, so long deprived of the right to earn their bread in the sweat of their labor, can raise their heads again. The challenge of this law is whether we can sink selfish interest and present a solid front against a common peril.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act
Tagged: Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Economy, FDR, Great Depression, The New Deal
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of decent living.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act
Tagged: Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Economy, FDR, Great Depression, The New Deal
“I think of the things that have come before me during the day and the decisions that I have made, I say to myself—well, I have done the best I could and turn over and go to sleep.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama and Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Ultimate Exit Interview
Tagged: Goodnight, Night, End of the Day, Your Life and Your Decisions
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fear Of Love Sayings and Quotes
Tagged: Fear Of Love, Relationships
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