I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Born: January 30, 1882 Died: April 12, 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (30 January 1882 – 12 April 1945), often referred to by his initials 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 for many years 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 a great expansion of the role of the federal government in the economy.
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Alternative Names for Franklin D. Roosevelt
Formal name - Full ceremonial or official name including titles and honorifics:
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (English (en))
Nickname or common name:
- FDR (English (en))
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
It is a fact increasingly manifest that presentation of real news has sharpened the minds and the judgment of men and women everywhere in these days of real public discussion. We Americans begin to know the difference between the truth on the one side and the falsehood on the other, no matter how often the falsehood is iterated and reiterated. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."
[<i>Letter to Herbert Putnam</i>; in: Waters, Edward N.: <i>Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world</i>; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171]
To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
I love it — I just love it.
You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat. But it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you musn't suffer from being wrong.