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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.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
By Franklin D. Roosevelt