"Favor comes because for a brief moment..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
More by Franklin D Roosevelt
“I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.”
“It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.”
“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt”
More on Purpose
“We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.”
“There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.”
“There is only one question: / how to love this world.”
More on Progress
“To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition”
“We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.”
“Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.”