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Quotes of Franklin Roosevelt [21]
- Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
- Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business... has been a menace to... American society.
- The only thing to fear is fear itself.
- More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
- We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
- 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.
- We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
- 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.
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
- First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
- Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
- There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
- The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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