War is a contagion.
Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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War is a contagion.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
- Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
- The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
- We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
- The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
- In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
- The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
- Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
- War is a contagion.
- 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.
- I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Best Quotes
- I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
- An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
- It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
- I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
- A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
- Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
- Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.
- All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
- If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.