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No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Bombs, Ruthlessness
The Great Arsenal of Democracy, delivered 29 December 1940

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jobs, Men, Land
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6".

Necessitous men are not free men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Free Man
Fireside Chat 28 - On the State of the Union (Economic Bill of Rights), delivered 11 January 1944

Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Believe, Home, Heart
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, New York, September 29, 1936.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Expectations, Bats
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sports, Alive, Fiber

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Confidence, Honesty, Patriotic
First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Land, Earth Day, Tree
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government, Public Opinion, Opinion
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.43, Best Books on

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ambition, People, Political
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Destiny, Men, Cynical

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Real, Men, Justice
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.389, Best Books on

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Leadership, Over You, Trying

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Smart, Political, Insightful

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Work, Organized Labor, Unions

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
People, House, Political
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 lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Spiritual, Moral Fiber, Welfare Programs
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Buying, Selling, Bigs

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Concentration Of Wealth, Political, Democracy

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men, Average, Liberty
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Believe, Past, Men

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Relationship, Future, Youth

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Business, Failure, Action

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Book, Land, Media Control
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Opportunity, Government, Average
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy