The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (26 October 1939)
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Speech in Syracuse, NY (29 September 1936)
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
