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"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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4/23/11

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes

"Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favour and glad to do Thy will." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Be sincere; be brief; be seated." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

"Far better is to dare powerful and mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failures; than to take ranks with those who are poor in spirit, who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Paralytic President

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"In our personal ambitions we are all individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Success often comes to those who dare and act, it seldom goes to the timid that are afraid of the consequences of seeking righteousness." ~Franklin Dlano Roosevelt

“The test of government is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide for those who have little.” ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There is nothing so American as our national parks.... The fundamental idea behind the parks...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."  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"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

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

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