Franklin D. Roosevelt
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. RooseveltTo reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Franklin D. RooseveltNot only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. RooseveltI am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. RooseveltI believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. RooseveltYesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. RooseveltProsperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. RooseveltAs Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Franklin D. RooseveltWar is a contagion.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. RooseveltThis generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. RooseveltThose newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
Franklin D. RooseveltMore than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltTake a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Franklin D. RooseveltI sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt is fun to be in the same decade with you.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Franklin D. RooseveltRepetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Franklin D. RooseveltIn the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt