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
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.
Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.
It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.
A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.