Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation. "

Related Quotes:

" It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. "

" Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. "

" The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread. "

" I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. "

" This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character. "

" Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. "

" Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. "

" Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. "

" Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness. "

" There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. "

" When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. "

" At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. "

" With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. "

" America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. "

" Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. "

" Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. "

" In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. "

" Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. "

" Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful. "

" The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. "

" A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. "

" The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity. "

" Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family. "

" The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. "

" The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. "

" True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men. "

" While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity. "

" Children are our most valuable natural resource. "

" Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world. "

" Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil. "