Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.


Speech in 1935, as quoted by Donna E. Shalala, as Secretary of Health and Human Services, in a speech to the American Public Welfare Association (27 February 1995)


Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.