Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Franklin D Roosevelt in short, often referred to by his initials FDR, was a US politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.Wisdom & Quotes
- I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Peace, like charity, begins at home.
- To some generations much is given. Of others much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
- Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
- The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
- No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
- 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 how to walk forward.
- A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backward.
- A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
- We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
- A full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
- We look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms (freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear).
- Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
- Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
- He may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky