Quotes on history

“They are unanimous in their hatred for me-and I welcome their hatred.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere.”

Henry A. Wallace
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“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“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
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“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…of his head.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. It permeated the ancient life of early peoples. It blazed anew in the Middle Ages. It was written in Magna Charta.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“In every land there are always at work forces that drive men apart and forces that draw men together. 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 we all go down, as one people.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Our Constitution is so simple, so practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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