More from Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  1. 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.
  2. I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
  3. Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
  4. If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live tog…
  5. Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfacto…
  6. If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
  7. A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our peo…
  8. In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

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