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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

American President

Born: Jan 30, 1882

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Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religion Destroy Seeks Another Against Whoever Set

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

School Willing Economize America Expenditure Which Should Last

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

People Progress Political Nation Ambition Down Else Our Seeking Economic Individualist Go Up Personal Personal Ambitions

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Enemy Affection True Self-Interest

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pay Ability Only Shall Principle According American Taxes Here Levied

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

Sincere Brief Seated

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

Lost Virtues Rivers Self-Interest Sea

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Generation Events Other This Generation Destiny Some Given Mysterious Generations Rendezvous Expected American Human Much Cycle

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Faith Strength Spiritual Physical Impact Physical Strength Never Force Withstand Permanently

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Me Dictatorship Somebody First Nation Cried Else Those Would Most Been Loudly Beginnings Which Against Justify Newspapers

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. Franklin D. Roosevelt

War Future National Past Deficits Ninety Ninety Percent Percent Over Caused Were Discovered Forget Payments Wars Present

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. Franklin D. Roosevelt

You Yourself Got Get Going Just Want Ask Sufficient Things

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. Franklin D. Roosevelt

War Beginning Differences Settling Thoroughly More Brutal Between Method Impractical Governments End Yes Than Want Inhuman Wars

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Christian Democrat Am

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. Franklin D. Roosevelt

You Remember Extra Else Everyone Just Play

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Work First Join Factory First Thing The First Thing Union Thing

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Time You People Treat Will Ninety Ninety Percent Percent Right

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Backwards Reactionary Walking

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nature Women Made Men Men And Women Starving Must Laws Economic Lay Fact Women Are Human Human Beings Hold While Beings

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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