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
Franklin D. Roosevelt quotes about
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
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
The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.
The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind
In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
when only a president could have that kind of accommodation.