Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

American - President | January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

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War is a contagion.

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WarContagion

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

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GovernmentConstitutionRulesUnited

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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NatureWomenMenHumanMen And Women

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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MoreHumanEmptyStomachThanFull

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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OpinionsManyExperts

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.

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FreedomGovernmentPeopleControl

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.

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YourselfYouWantAskThingsGoing

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

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LookProductUnitedUnited States

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

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