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I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy, Library, Conviction

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party, Rights, Political
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1940, Volume 9”, p.408, Best Books on

Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Needs, Roles

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ambition, Wealth, Prosperity
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Liberty, Libertarian, Taxes

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Moving, Unity, Promise

We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
War, Ignorance, Fighting

But the challenge is always the same - whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Numbers, People
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at the Dedication of the Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1938.

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Giving, Justice, President
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.497, Best Books on

We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Selfish, Criticism, Grind
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “Fireside chats”, Penguin Group USA

The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Views, Understanding, Quality
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Running, Yards, Wide Receiver

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
People, Income, Taxation
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.271, Best Books on

There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Children, War, Home
Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Blessing, Land, Political
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.541, Best Books on

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Uprising
"The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940". Book by Franklin D. Roosevelt, p. 53, 1941.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Inspirational, Funny, Powerful

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Teaching, Men, Giving
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

Failure is not an American habit.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Habit
Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
People, World War 2, Deals
Speech to Democratic National Convention accepting presidential nomination, Chicago, Ill., 2 July 1932. The earliest figurative use of the term new deal that has been found is in a letter from John Rathbone to Nicholas Biddle, 18 Jan. 1834, referring to "a new bank and a New Deal." Roosevelt or his speechwriters may have picked up the phrase from earlier political usages by Mark Twain or Woodrow Wilson. See Twain 40; Woodrow Wilson 4

It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Pyramids, Magic
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Years, Two, Trying

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oasis, People, Liberty
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.255, Best Books on

Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.... we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Character, Winning, Long
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Land, America, New Life
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy