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
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.
Forests are the lungs of our land......
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson- and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of WW - The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United Stated - only on a far bigger and broader basis.
A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Calm seas never made a good sailor
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.