FDR -Quotes that President Obama should read and live by

[MichDem10]

FDR 1936 campaign speech in Madison Square Garden October 31, 1936

"For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master."


Other FDR Quotes:

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

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

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

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


No truer words have been spoken! :kick: :patriot:

[emilyg]

1. knr

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. It's hilarious

One thing is clear: very few people here know fuck-all about the 1930's and FDR's presidency. As it turns out, there was an actually powerful left wing faction that was, in fact, much stronger than the current left wing fringe situating itself against Obama. And that left wing faction used terms like "the lesser of two evils" when discussing then FDR-Landon race of 1936 (this is BEFORE the recession of 1937), and all the shit we're seeing here today has been seen before, a hundred fold, and fucking SMARTER.

Same as it fucking ever was.

[Moostache]

4. I'll take Glass-Steagall...you can keep Dodd-Frank...

Same as it ever was? I think not...

[NYC Liberal]

5. "Is not this trickery the hallmark of this Wall Street tool,

this President who always stabs in the back while he embraces? How unctuous is his empty solicitude for the ragged, hungry children…with the ruthlessness of a devoted Wall Street lackey spending billions for war and profits and trampling on the faces of the poor."

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. And those were the *liberal* critiques

Never mind what was coming out of the CPUSA or the various splinter movements and small and large journals and magazines!

;-)

[boston bean]

8. The left will never be as strong as it once was when people who say they agree are telling the left

to STFU.

Now who's fault is that?

[uponit7771]

3. If Obama had an 83% dem congress then it'd be easier to live by these quotes...

...I don't like it when people leave that little fact out of the equation.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Of course that is not actually true. Four Congresses, each different

under FDR. A chart so all can learn the actual facts http://arts.bev.net/roperldavid/politics/congress.htm
Additionally, I was not aware that it needed to be 'easier', as W said, Presidenting is hard work. Also, to 'live by these quotes' one has to at least say things like them. That is, leadership begins with speaking one's own mind clearly, gaining trust by following through and no one every suggested it would be easy. Gosh, it sure seems hard, not very easy! Hilarious.

[woo me with science]

6. K&R nt

[PatSeg]

9. K&R

[Bluenorthwest]

11. Excellent post

The words of a Democrat.