Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party after 1932 as a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. His program for relief, recovery and reform, known as the New Deal, involved...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth30 January 1882
CityHyde Park, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.
The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.
I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.
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.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.