Category Archives: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Today’s Quote – 2007.11.17
“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.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Today’s Quote – 2007.09.22
“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. So, 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.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Today’s Quote – 2007.09.04
“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
In this world of ours in other lands, there are some people, who, in times past, have lived and fought for freedom, and seem to have grown too weary to carry on the fight. They have sold their heritage of freedom for the illusion of a living. They have yielded their democracy.
I believe in my heart that only our success can stir their ancient hope. They begin to know that here in America we are waging a great and successful war. It is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization. It is more than that; it is a war for the survival of democracy. We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 27, 1936 (on acceptance of the Democratic Party nomination to run for a 2nd term)
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Hat-tip to: Sara Robinson at Group News Blog
Today’s Quote – 2007.06.05
“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” —Franklin D.Roosevelt
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Today’s Quote – 2007.03.28
“In the United States democracy has not yet failed and does not need to fail. And we propose not to let it fail!” –Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic Victory Dinner, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1937)
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