Coaches Hot Seat Quotes of the Day – Tuesday, August 7, 2012 – 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.”
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“Be sincere; be brief; be seated.”
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“Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”
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“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”
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“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”
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“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
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“In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.”
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“It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.”
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“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.”
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“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”
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“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
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“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.”
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“Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.”
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“Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.”
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“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
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“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
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“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
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“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
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“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
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“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”
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“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
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“This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory.” First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1933
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