7 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes on Progress

Franklin Delano Roosevelt quotes on progress

10. Yes. we are on the way back - not by mere chance, not by a turn of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we planned it that way, and don't let anybody tell you differently.

11. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

16. A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted - in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command - of his head.

22. We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

56. Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

63. In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

69. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.