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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Family, Peace, Home
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.529, Best Books on

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracies Have, Government, Voters
Franklin D. Roosevelt's address in Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, People, Justice

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
This Generation, Generations, Rendezvous
Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Inspirational, Ninety Nine, People
"The Roosevelt I Knew". Book by Frances Perkins, p. 5, 1946.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Feet, Perfectly Good
Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Running, Men, Goes On
Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Equality, Principles, Taxation
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.525, Best Books on

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Leadership, Business, Insperational

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Memories, Freedom, War
"Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party, Long, Support
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.517, Best Books on

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Time, Littles, Management
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

The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Needs, Citizens
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.480, Best Books on

If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sacrifice, Years, Wind
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932, Volume 1”, p.797, Best Books on

We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wisdom, Mean, Giving
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Oglethorpe University Commencement Address, May 22, 1932.

In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Mean, Simple
Franklin D. Roosevelt's statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Memorial, Political, Freedom Of Speech

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fate, Greatness, Men
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1940, Volume 9”, p.862, Best Books on

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cute, Friends, Sweet

Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life, Mean, Men
"Looking Forward".

Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Children, Men, People

...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Country, Marine, United States

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Doctrine, Politics

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mistake, Government, Divine Justice
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

Tell that to the Marines!

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marine, Marine Corps