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“...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Country #Marine #United States
“I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Unemployed #Employed
“Tell that to the Marines!”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Marine #Marine Corps
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Children #Educational #Future
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Life #Perseverance #Teaching
“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#People #Voting #Way
“In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Democracy #Mob Rule #Flags
“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Relationship #Money #Peace
“Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Believe #Home #Heart
“Above all, try something”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Positive Thinking #Thinking #Trying
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Success #Real #Voting
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Jobs #Freedom #People
“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Teamwork #Competition #Collaboration
“Peace, like charity, begins at home.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Peace #Home #Charity
“I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of lineâ€”the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Mother #Running #Children
“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.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Simple #Pyramids #Liberty
“Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Real #Common Sense #World
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Clever #Men #Two
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success
“In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Country #Mean #Simple
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Judging #Judgement #Enemy
“I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Law #Return #Modern
“It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Destiny #Men #Cynical
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Patriotic #History #Political
“Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Winning #People #Long
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Respect #Kindness #Character
“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Strength #Crush #Peace
“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Destiny #Government #Class
“We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Country #Society #Trying

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