677 Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt


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    It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead – and find no one there.

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    Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom reality.

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    We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

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    There’s nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

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    All work undertaken should be useful – not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

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    Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

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    It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

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