Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Related Quotes:

" When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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

" Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Be sincere; be brief; be seated. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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

" I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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 little. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. "

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. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" War is a contagion. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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

" 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

" If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" 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. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt