Franklin D. Roosevelt Art Quotations

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and example, must be inculcated in the hearts and minds of all Americans if the institutions of our democracy are to be maintained and perpetuated. We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Forests are the lungs of our land......

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.

Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women

If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.