All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat. But it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share
